Goodbye, Computer Mouse.
The article discusses the computer mouse, reporting on comments made in July 2008 by the Gartner Group consulting firm analyst Steve Prentice on BBC News to the effect that the mouse will be replaced over the next three to five years. Prentice indicated that alternative user interfaces utilizing mov...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 9; p. 16 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2008
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