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User Experience of On-Screen Interaction Techniques: An Experimental Investigation of Clicking, Sliding, Zooming, Hovering, Dragging, and Flipping

S. Shyam Sundar The Pennsylvania State University; Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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Saraswathi Bellur University of Connecticut
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Jeeyun Oh Robert Morris University
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Qian Xu Elon University
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Haiyan Jia The Pennsylvania State University
Pages 109-152 | Published online: 27 Dec 2013

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