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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences

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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. / Cheverst, Keith; Davies, Nigel; Mitchell, Keith et al.

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2000. p. 17-24 (CHI '00).

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Cheverst, K, Davies, N, Mitchell, K, Friday, A & Efstratiou, C 2000, Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. CHI '00, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332047

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Cheverst, K., Davies, N., Mitchell, K., Friday, A., & Efstratiou, C. (2000). Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 17-24). (CHI '00). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332047

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Cheverst K, Davies N, Mitchell K, Friday A, Efstratiou C. Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM. 2000. p. 17-24. (CHI '00). doi: 10.1145/332040.332047

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Cheverst, Keith ; Davies, Nigel ; Mitchell, Keith et al. / Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2000. pp. 17-24 (CHI '00).

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