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Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context

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Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context. / Stegers, Brigitte; Sauvé, Kim; Houben, Steven.
DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. New York: ACM, 2022. p. 1669-1683 (Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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Stegers, B, Sauvé, K & Houben, S 2022, Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context. in DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM, New York, pp. 1669-1683. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533508

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Stegers, B., Sauvé, K., & Houben, S. (2022). Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context. In DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing (pp. 1669-1683). (Designing Interactive Systems Conference). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533508

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Stegers B, Sauvé K, Houben S. Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context. In DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. New York: ACM. 2022. p. 1669-1683. (Designing Interactive Systems Conference). Epub 2022 Jun 13. doi: 10.1145/3532106.3533508

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Stegers, Brigitte ; Sauvé, Kim ; Houben, Steven. / Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context. DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. New York : ACM, 2022. pp. 1669-1683 (Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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