Women go with the (optical) flow

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 209-215

  Tan, Desney S ^a   Czerwinski, Mary ^b   Robertson, George ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Field of view; Gender; Large displays; Optical flow; Spatial abilities; User study

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; USER INTERFACES;

OPTICAL FLOW CUES;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 85088186086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/642647.642649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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