From: Kevin O'Donnell NS <kevino@ichigo.os.nasu.toshiba.co.jp>
Subject: Re: PHIL: Where is the interaction with a VW?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 10:41:40 CST


> I was thinking about how VR would fit into a hierarchy of media.  The
> premise is that VR is a communication medium, and media can be
> classified by their representational methods/power.  The problem is:
> how to classify (esp. interactive) representational methods.  How

> -Ian D. Bygrave Undergradate Computer Science at University of Warwick, UK
>         mauah@csv.warwick.ac.uk
>         ibygrave@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

There is a paper available on a server at UNC which outlines a system of
classification that encompasses most of the aspects of VR as well as
more traditional media and devices such as telephones, film,
microscopes, etc.  Lots of food for thought.

"Synthetic Experience: A Taxonomy, Survey of Earlier Thought, and
Speculations on the Future"
by Warren Robinett, Dept of CS, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PaperId# NC 27599-3175

I don't have the net address at hand, but that and perhaps the paper
itself is probably available in the sci.vw archives.

Til Later,
  Kevin