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Walking away from the desktop computer: distributed collaboration and mobility in a product design team

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CSCW '96: Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

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https://doi.org/10.1145/240080.240256

Published: 16 November 1996 Publication History

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