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Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps. / Dauden Roquet, Claudia; Sas, Corina.
CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2018. LBW575.

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Dauden Roquet, C & Sas, C 2018, Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps. in CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., LBW575, ACM, New York. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188616

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Dauden Roquet, C., & Sas, C. (2018). Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article LBW575 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188616

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Dauden Roquet C, Sas C. Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2018. LBW575 doi: 10.1145/3170427.3188616

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Dauden Roquet, Claudia ; Sas, Corina. / Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps. CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2018.

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