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Models of attention in computing and communication: from principles to applications

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Creating computing and communication systems that sense and reason about human attention by fusing together information from multiple streams.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 46, Issue 3
        March 2003
        99 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/636772
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