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Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers

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Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers. / Lindley, Joseph; Coulton, Paul.
CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 4032-4043.

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Lindley, J & Coulton, P 2016, Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers. in CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 4032-4043, CHI 2016, San Jose, United States, 7/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858446

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Lindley, J., & Coulton, P. (2016). Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers. In CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4032-4043). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858446

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Lindley J, Coulton P. Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers. In CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2016. p. 4032-4043 doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858446

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Lindley, Joseph ; Coulton, Paul. / Pushing the limits of design fiction : the case for fictional research papers. CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2016. pp. 4032-4043

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