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This paper and the work that it reports have benefited substantially from discussions with my collaborators Randy Trigg and Brigitte Jordan. For developing observations on the use of whiteboards I am indebted to Randy Trigg, John Tang and to members of the Interaction Analysis Group at Xerox PARC; Christina Allen, Stephanie Behrend, Sara Bly, Tom Finholt, George Goodman, Austin Henderson, Brigitte Jordan, Jane Laursen, Susan Newman, Janice Singer, and Debbie Tatar.
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Suchman, L.A. Representing practice in cognitive science. Hum Stud 11, 305–325 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00177307
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