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Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work table of contents

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pages: 281 - 288

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-542-9

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Raul Medina-Mora
Terry Winograd
Rodrigo Flores
Fernando Flores

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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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