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Bringing icons to life

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Ronald Baecker,

Ian Small,

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CHI '91: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/108844.108845

Published: 01 March 1991 Publication History

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Bringing icons to life
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction paradigms
2. Software and its engineering
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    1. Development frameworks and environments

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