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Effects of awareness support on groupware usability

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Carl Gutwin,

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CHI '98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 511 - 518

https://doi.org/10.1145/274644.274713

Published: 01 January 1998 Publication History

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Effects of awareness support on groupware usability
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CHI '98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

January 1998

650 pages

ISBN:0201309874

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US West Advanced Technologies
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CLIPS-IMAG
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