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Simplicity is highly overrated

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Interactions, Volume 14, Issue 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1229863.1229885

Published: 01 March 2007 Publication History

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Interactions Volume 14, Issue 2

25 years of CHI conferences: a photographic essay

March + April 2007

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DOI:10.1145/1229863

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