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The information visualizer, an information workspace

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Stuart K. Card,

George G. Robertson,

Jock D. MackinlayAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 181 - 186

https://doi.org/10.1145/108844.108874

Published: 01 March 1991 Publication History

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