From: BWOOD@TrentU.ca
Subject: Re: SCI: Vr and Psychology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:20 EST


	re:  copley-devon@cs.yale.edu

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?"

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?