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Designers and the age of fear

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Looking into the---sometimes bad---reality of life offers rich challenges for interaction design. In this Connections column, John Thackara looks into the aspects of fear and discusses its relevance for human-computer interaction.---Manfred Tscheligi

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        cover image Interactions
        Interactions  Volume 12, Issue 6
        November + December 2005
        59 pages
        ISSN:1072-5520
        EISSN:1558-3449
        DOI:10.1145/1096554
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