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A comparison of the use of text and multimedia interfaces to provide information to the elderly

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        CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
        April 1994
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        ISBN:0897916506
        DOI:10.1145/191666

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