Designing and Testing a Mobile Application for Collecting WhatsApp Chat Data While Preserving Privacy

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Main Authors:	Schaffner, Brennan, Brohn, Archie, Chee, Jason, Feng, K. J., Chetty, Marshini
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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