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Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2)

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Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2). / Harper, Richard; Sellen, Abigail; [Unknown], Anon (Editor).
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 1995. p. 122-129.

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Harper, R, Sellen, A & [Unknown], A (ed.) 1995, Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2). in CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 122-129. https://doi.org/10.1145/223904.223920

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Harper, R., Sellen, A., & [Unknown], A. (Ed.) (1995). Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2). In CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 122-129). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/223904.223920

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Harper R, Sellen A, [Unknown] A, (ed.). Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2). In CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 1995. p. 122-129 doi: 10.1145/223904.223920

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Harper, Richard ; Sellen, Abigail ; [Unknown], Anon (Editor). / Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the International Monetary Fund : Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Part 2 (of 2). CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 1995. pp. 122-129

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