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Phone-based interfaces: research and guidelines

Schumacher Jr, 1992

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12552200521046411739
Author
Schumacher Jr R
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Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

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The telephone is the most ubiquitous computer input/output device with over 200 million units in the US Thousands of applications–from airline reservations to zoo schedules– employ audio output and touch-tone input to control the flow and content of information …
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