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Modelling last-minute authoring: does technology add value or encourage tinkering?

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Modelling last-minute authoring: does technology add value or encourage tinkering? / Newman, William; Eldridge, Margery; Harper, Richard.
CHI '96 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 1996. p. 221-222.

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Newman, W, Eldridge, M & Harper, R 1996, Modelling last-minute authoring: does technology add value or encourage tinkering? in CHI '96 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 221-222. https://doi.org/10.1145/257089.257291

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Newman, W., Eldridge, M., & Harper, R. (1996). Modelling last-minute authoring: does technology add value or encourage tinkering? In CHI '96 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 221-222). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/257089.257291

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Newman W, Eldridge M, Harper R. Modelling last-minute authoring: does technology add value or encourage tinkering? In CHI '96 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 1996. p. 221-222 doi: 10.1145/257089.257291

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Newman, William ; Eldridge, Margery ; Harper, Richard. / Modelling last-minute authoring : does technology add value or encourage tinkering?. CHI '96 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 1996. pp. 221-222

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