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Information and context: lessons from the study of two shared information systems

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COCS '93: Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/168555.168560

Published: 01 December 1993 Publication History

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Information and context: lessons from the study of two shared information systems
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
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