Quote: a system should provide useful displacement activity when distraction is needed; e.g., games, mail, news, etc.

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Promotes the development of useful "displacement activity", such as his DYK ("Did You Know") program, to fill in those odd moments when some distraction is needed. Other examples are checking for mail, reading news, seeing who else is on the system, and playing games.

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