User workshops: a method for eliciting user needs

2006-09-29
Töre Yargın, Gülşen
Hasdoğan, Gülay Fatma
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G. Töre Yargın and G. F. Hasdoğan, “User workshops: a method for eliciting user needs,” 2006, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72607.
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