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Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality: Commentary

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Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality: Commentary. / Harper, R.
CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 363.

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Harper, R 2016, Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality: Commentary. in CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 363. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892585

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Harper, R. (2016). Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality: Commentary. In CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 363). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892585

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Harper R. Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality: Commentary. In CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2016. p. 363 doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892585

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Harper, R. / Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality : Commentary. CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2016. pp. 363

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