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Designing for and with vulnerable people. / Vines, John; McNaney, Róisín; Lindsay, Stephen et al.
In: Interactions, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014, p. 44-46.

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Vines, J, McNaney, R, Lindsay, S, Wallace, J & McCarthy, J 2014, 'Designing for and with vulnerable people' Interactions, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 44-46. https://doi.org/10.1145/2543490

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Vines, J., McNaney, R., Lindsay, S., Wallace, J., & McCarthy, J. (2014). Designing for and with vulnerable people. Interactions, 21(1), 44-46. https://doi.org/10.1145/2543490

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Vines J, McNaney R, Lindsay S, Wallace J, McCarthy J. Designing for and with vulnerable people. Interactions. 2014;21(1):44-46. doi: 10.1145/2543490

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Vines, John ; McNaney, Róisín ; Lindsay, Stephen et al. / Designing for and with vulnerable people. In: Interactions. 2014 ; Vol. 21, No. 1. pp. 44-46.

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