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- From: BWOOD@TrentU.ca
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: SCI: Vr and Psychology
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.021730.22760@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 04:20:00 GMT
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- re: copley-devon@cs.yale.edu
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- Q: "I wonder, then, how infants WOULD react to virtual reality, if
- exposed to it before they've formed many of their conceptions of
- the way the world REALLY works. Many questions come to mind.
- Would hightened, simulated reality speed an infants understanding
- of actual reality, or interfere with it because it requires a level
- of abstraction out of the child's reach? What if you present very
- young children with virtual reality that DOESN'T rely on paradigms
- from actual reality? What shape could such an "illogical reality"
- take? And do they make powergloves in extra-small?"
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- A: What about comparing what goes on in a child's behaviour with regard
- to video games, TV, radio and other simulations of the "real" (physical)
- world? Hasn't enough psychological work been done in this area, or
- have the psych people been ignoring the "artificial" character of these
- experiences in favour of the physical?
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