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Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud

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Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud. / Odom, W.; Sellen, A.; Harper, R. et al.
CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2012. p. 781-790.

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Odom, W, Sellen, A, Harper, R & Thereska, E 2012, Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud. in CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 781-790. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207789

APA

Odom, W., Sellen, A., Harper, R., & Thereska, E. (2012). Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud. In CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 781-790). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207789

Vancouver

Odom W, Sellen A, Harper R, Thereska E. Lost in translation: Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud. In CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2012. p. 781-790 doi: 10.1145/2207676.2207789

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Odom, W. ; Sellen, A. ; Harper, R. et al. / Lost in translation : Understanding the possession of digital things in the Cloud. CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2012. pp. 781-790

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