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From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft. / Lindley, Joseph; Whitham, Roger.
TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York: ACM, 2025. p. 1-12 54.

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Lindley, J & Whitham, R 2025, From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft. in TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction., 54, ACM, New York, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3704424

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Lindley, J., & Whitham, R. (2025). From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft. In TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 1-12). Article 54 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3704424

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Lindley J, Whitham R. From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft. In TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York: ACM. 2025. p. 1-12. 54 doi: 10.1145/3689050.3704424

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Lindley, Joseph ; Whitham, Roger. / From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft. TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York : ACM, 2025. pp. 1-12

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