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Using mobile phones to reveal the complexities of the school journey. / Bamford, Will; Coulton, Paul; Walker, Marion et al.
MobileHCI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York: ACM, 2008. p. 283-292.

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Bamford, W, Coulton, P, Walker, M, Whyatt, D, Davies, G & Pooley, C 2008, Using mobile phones to reveal the complexities of the school journey. in MobileHCI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, New York, pp. 283-292, 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2/09/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1409240.1409271

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Bamford, W., Coulton, P., Walker, M., Whyatt, D., Davies, G., & Pooley, C. (2008). Using mobile phones to reveal the complexities of the school journey. In MobileHCI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services (pp. 283-292). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1409240.1409271

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Bamford W, Coulton P, Walker M, Whyatt D, Davies G, Pooley C. Using mobile phones to reveal the complexities of the school journey. In MobileHCI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York: ACM. 2008. p. 283-292 doi: 10.1145/1409240.1409271

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Bamford, Will ; Coulton, Paul ; Walker, Marion et al. / Using mobile phones to reveal the complexities of the school journey. MobileHCI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York : ACM, 2008. pp. 283-292

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