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BARTER: promoting local spending behavior

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BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. / Knowles, Brandin; Lochrie, Mark; Coulton, Paul et al.
CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2014. p. 1933-1938.

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Knowles, B, Lochrie, M, Coulton, P & Whittle, J 2014, BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. in CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 1933-1938. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581306

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Knowles, B., Lochrie, M., Coulton, P., & Whittle, J. (2014). BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. In CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1933-1938). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581306

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Knowles B, Lochrie M, Coulton P, Whittle J. BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. In CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2014. p. 1933-1938 doi: 10.1145/2559206.2581306

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Knowles, Brandin ; Lochrie, Mark ; Coulton, Paul et al. / BARTER : promoting local spending behavior. CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2014. pp. 1933-1938

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