Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!wiley!jay@uunet.UU.NET From: wiley!jay@uunet.UU.NET (Jay Nelson) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: Where are the Women? Message-ID: <19047@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 26 Mar 91 02:10:44 GMT References: <18995@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 24 Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu In article willdye@typhoon.unl.edu writes: > stuff about lack of women... > >3. Make sure that any published findings are cleansed of cultural >bias (as much as possible). > > ... "Findings" need to be measured against the group of users expected to experience the VRs that are created. It's not enough to just cleanse the publications so they don't look like they were written by a particular group, the evaluation of effectiveness needs to include users from the expected population. I've heard that women have their right brain and left brain connections wired differently then men. It is quite possible that some of the direct sensory input devices will have a different effect on women. Jay Nelson (TRW) jay@wilbur.coyote.trw.com