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Methods & tools: Playacting and focus troupes:: theater techniques for creating quick, intense, immersive, and engaging focus group sessions

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Interactions, Volume 6, Issue 5

Pages 35 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/312683.312715

Published: 01 September 1999 Publication History

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