The applicability of constructivist user studies: How can constructivist inquiry inform service providers and systems designers?

Information Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Pickard, Alison ^a   Dixon, Pat ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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