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Context-Aware Wearables: The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats

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Context-Aware Wearables: The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats. / Snooks, Kim; Lindley, Joseph; Richards, Daniel et al.
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021. New York: ACM, 2021. 25 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Snooks, K, Lindley, J, Richards, D & Whitham, R 2021, Context-Aware Wearables: The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats. in Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021., 25, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, ACM, New York, 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokhama, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3450367

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Snooks, K., Lindley, J., Richards, D., & Whitham, R. (2021). Context-Aware Wearables: The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021 Article 25 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3450367

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Snooks K, Lindley J, Richards D, Whitham R. Context-Aware Wearables: The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021. New York: ACM. 2021. 25. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Epub 2021 May 8. doi: 10.1145/3411763.3450367

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Snooks, Kim ; Lindley, Joseph ; Richards, Daniel et al. / Context-Aware Wearables : The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021. New York : ACM, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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