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Making computers easier for older adults to use: area cursors and sticky icons

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          CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
          March 1997
          565 pages
          ISBN:0897918029
          DOI:10.1145/258549

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