Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control

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Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control

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Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work table of contents

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pages: 123 - 129

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-542-9

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R. Bentley
J. A. Hughes
D. Randall
T. Rodden
P. Sawyer
D. Shapiro
I. Sommerville

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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