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E-mail as habitat: an exploration of embedded personal information management

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Volume 8 , Issue 5 (Sept./Oct. 2001) table of contents

Pages: 30 - 38

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:1072-5520

Authors

Nicolas Ducheneaut	Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Victoria Bellotti	Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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