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- From: hudel@waterloo.hp.com (Chris Hudel)
- Subject: Virtual Reality Addiction (Questionnaire)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:49:32 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard (Panacom Division)
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- Hello!
-
- Do you spend a lot of time involved in "virtual" activies such as USENET,
- IRC, MUDs, or some other computer enviornment that involves groups of
- people interacting with one another (whether role-playing or not)?
-
- Do you spend too much time doing these things? Did you ever spend too
- much time doing these things? I'm interested in hearing from you if
- any of the above questions apply. I leave the definition of "too much time"
- up to you... I'm preparing a paper on Virtual Reality Addictions and I
- very much request your input.
-
- Please complete any parts of the following questionaire that you'd like to
- and e-mail it to me at
- chudel@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
-
- Of course I've no intention of using personal real identities in the paper
- so please be as detailed as possible. I personally guarantee confidentiality
- of your information.
-
- Thank you,
- Chris Hudel
- chudel@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
-
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- Questionaire:
-
- Name:
- Age:
- Sex:
- Occupation:
-
- In what "virtual" activies do you regularly participate?
-
- How long -- and how often -- do you engage in these activies?
-
- Do you feel you spend too much time in these activies?
-
- Has your involvement affected your lifestyle (work/school/etc..) in any way?
-
- What is so appealing about about what you do?
-
- Do you know of anyone that uses virtual reality for illegal/unethical
- purposes (ftp software piracy, etc..)?
-
- What do you know about "netsex" or "computersex"?
-
- Do you know anyone that has been addicted to thse virtual activies?
-
- What became of him/her?
-
- Are you addicted to these virtual activies?
-
- What are you doing about your addiction?
-
- Would you agree to being quoted (under a pseudonym)?
-
- Would you be willing to talk further and in more detail about any of
- the above points? Or about anything that deals with virtual activities
- and their addictiveness? (If you don't believe they're addictive at all,
- please let me know that too!)
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-
- Please feel free to candidly add *anything* of interest to this short
- questionnaire and thanks again for your input.
-
-