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Technomethodology: paradoxes and possibilities

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: common ground table of contents

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pages: 19 - 26

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-777-4

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Graham Button	Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Laboratory (EuroPARC), 61 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AB, United Kingdom
Paul Dourish	Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Laboratory (EuroPARC), 61 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AB, United Kingdom

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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