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Talking to strangers: an evaluation of the factors affecting electronic collaboration

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 409 - 418

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-765-0

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Steve Whittaker

ATT Labs, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ

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

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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