The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2005-04-02

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/1054972.1055012
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