Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents

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Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. / Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne; Hornbæk, Kasper.

Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 246-255.

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Jakobsen, MR & Hornbæk, K 2010, Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. in Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 246-255, 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Reykjavik, Iceland, 16/10/2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868945

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Jakobsen, M. R., & Hornbæk, K. (2010). Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries (pp. 246-255). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868945

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Jakobsen MR, Hornbæk K. Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries. Association for Computing Machinery. 2010. p. 246-255 https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868945

Author

Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne ; Hornbæk, Kasper. / Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. pp. 246-255

Bibtex

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