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Blended Experience Narratives. / Flint, Tom; O’Keefe, Brian; Mastermaker, Mike et al.
In: Electronic Workshops in Computing, Vol. 2022, 11.07.2022.

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Flint, T, O’Keefe, B, Mastermaker, M, Sturdee, M & Benyon, D 2022, 'Blended Experience Narratives', Electronic Workshops in Computing, vol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2022.9

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Flint, T., O’Keefe, B., Mastermaker, M., Sturdee, M., & Benyon, D. (2022). Blended Experience Narratives. Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2022.9

Vancouver

Flint T, O’Keefe B, Mastermaker M, Sturdee M, Benyon D. Blended Experience Narratives. Electronic Workshops in Computing. 2022 Jul 11;2022. doi: 10.14236/ewic/hci2022.9

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Flint, Tom ; O’Keefe, Brian ; Mastermaker, Mike et al. / Blended Experience Narratives. In: Electronic Workshops in Computing. 2022 ; Vol. 2022.

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