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From: nielsen@flash.bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen)
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Subject: Re: HELP WITH VR FORECASTING!, Please.
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Date: 30 Oct 90 14:36:12 GMT
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Chrome Cboy writes:
> I'd like to suggest that we,
> as a group, work on establishing our own database of VR-related material!

Good idea. I would like to add a suggestion that we take advantage of
the cyberspace nature of the existing net community by annotating the
various references with quality and interest-level ratings.

As an example, assume that the database has 200 literature references.
Maybe 10 of these will be rated as extremely important by everybody,
and another, say, 20 will be rated highly by some and as pure nonsense
by others. All 30 are probably papers a newcomer should look at, but
said newcomer should exercise caution before trusting the latter 20 papers.

There needs to be some kind of voting mechanism set up with a
standardized rating scale (-4 to +4 ??) and a method of emailing ratings
to have them included in the database.
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Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore MRE-2P370, 445 South St, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
nielsen@bellcore.com, Tel. (201) 829-4731(w)/538-7254(h), Fax (201) 538-9093.