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Motivational affordances: reasons for ICT design and use

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 11
        Remembering Jim Gray
        November 2008
        122 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1400214
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