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An empirical investigation of the novice experience with soft keyboards

I. Scott MacKenzie Dept. of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3 E-mail: [email protected]
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Shawn X. Zhang Corel Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R7 E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 411-418 | Published online: 08 Nov 2010

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