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Design and Use of an Apparatus for Presenting Graspable Objects in 3D Workspace
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Published on: August 8, 2019

Mark A. Anderson1

  • 1ErgoSystems Consulting Group, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Work (Reading, Mass.)
|November 21, 2002
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