Anticipatory Ethnography: Design Fiction as an Input to Design Ethnography
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1559-890X
DOI: 10.1111/1559-8918.01030