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Design for forgetting: disposing of digital possessions after a breakup

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Design for forgetting: disposing of digital possessions after a breakup. / Sas, Corina; Whittaker, Steve.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13). New York: ACM, 2013. p. 1823-1832.

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Sas, C & Whittaker, S 2013, Design for forgetting: disposing of digital possessions after a breakup. in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, pp. 1823-1832, CHI 2013 "Changing Perspectives", Paris, France, 27/04/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466241

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Sas, C., & Whittaker, S. (2013). Design for forgetting: disposing of digital possessions after a breakup. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13) (pp. 1823-1832). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466241

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Sas C, Whittaker S. Design for forgetting: disposing of digital possessions after a breakup. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13). New York: ACM. 2013. p. 1823-1832 doi: 10.1145/2470654.2466241

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Sas, Corina ; Whittaker, Steve. / Design for forgetting : disposing of digital possessions after a breakup. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13). New York : ACM, 2013. pp. 1823-1832

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