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The past is a different place: they do things differently there. / Harper, R.; Randall, D.; Smyth, N. et al.
DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems. New York: ACM, 2008. p. 271-280.

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Harper, R, Randall, D, Smyth, N, Evans, C, Heledd, L & Moore, R 2008, The past is a different place: they do things differently there. in DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems. ACM, New York, pp. 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1145/1394445.1394474

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Harper, R., Randall, D., Smyth, N., Evans, C., Heledd, L., & Moore, R. (2008). The past is a different place: they do things differently there. In DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems (pp. 271-280). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1394445.1394474

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Harper R, Randall D, Smyth N, Evans C, Heledd L, Moore R. The past is a different place: they do things differently there. In DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems. New York: ACM. 2008. p. 271-280 doi: 10.1145/1394445.1394474

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Harper, R. ; Randall, D. ; Smyth, N. et al. / The past is a different place : they do things differently there. DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems. New York : ACM, 2008. pp. 271-280

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