Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant

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Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant. / Homewood, S.; Heyer, C.

DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 339–343.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Homewood, S & Heyer, C 2017, Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant. in DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 339–343. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064726

APA

Homewood, S., & Heyer, C. (2017). Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant. In DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 339–343). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064726

Vancouver

Homewood S, Heyer C. Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant. In DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 339–343 https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064726

Author

Homewood, S. ; Heyer, C. / Turned On / Turned Off: Speculating on the microchip-based contraceptive implant. DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. pp. 339–343

Bibtex

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