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Methods & tools: The activity checklist: a tool for representing the “space” of context

Editors: Steven Pemberton, Jay Blickstein Authors:

Victor Kaptelinin,

Bonnie A. Nardi,

Catriona MacaulayAuthors Info & Claims

Interactions, Volume 6, Issue 4

Pages 27 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/306412.306431

Published: 01 July 1999 Publication History

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Interactions Volume 6, Issue 4

July-Aug. 1999

69 pages

ISSN:1072-5520

EISSN:1558-3449

DOI:10.1145/306412

Editors:
Steven Pemberton,
Jay Blickstein

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