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Methods & tools: Playacting and focus troupes:: theater techniques for creating quick, intense, immersive, and engaging focus group sessions

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Volume 6 , Issue 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1999) table of contents

Pages: 35 - 41

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:1072-5520

Authors

Steve Sato	Doblin Group
Tony Salvador	Intel Corp.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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