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Sketch-Thru-Plan: a multimodal interface for command and control

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Speaking military jargon, users can create labels and draw symbols to position objects on digitized maps.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 4
              April 2015
              86 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/2749359
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              • Moshe Y. Vardi
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