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The tyranny of the everyday in mobile video messaging. / Rintel, S.; Harper, R.; O'Hara, K.
CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 4781-4792.

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Rintel, S, Harper, R & O'Hara, K 2016, The tyranny of the everyday in mobile video messaging. in CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 4781-4792. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858042

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Rintel, S., Harper, R., & O'Hara, K. (2016). The tyranny of the everyday in mobile video messaging. In CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4781-4792). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858042

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Rintel S, Harper R, O'Hara K. The tyranny of the everyday in mobile video messaging. In CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2016. p. 4781-4792 doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858042

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Rintel, S. ; Harper, R. ; O'Hara, K. / The tyranny of the everyday in mobile video messaging. CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2016. pp. 4781-4792

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