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

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Volume 6 , Issue 4 (July-Aug. 1999) table of contents

Pages: 27 - 39

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:1072-5520

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Victor Kaptelinin	Umeå Univ., Sweden
Bonnie A. Nardi	AT&T Labs-Research, Menlo Park, CA
Catriona Macaulay	Napier Univ., Edinburgh, UK

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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