Gender issues
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Monday, November 10th, 2008Sarah sent me a link to the GenderAnalyzer, which can “determine” what gender the person writing a blog is.
You know what? As a woman, I find these kinds of things extremely insulting. I have no idea how they determine a writer’s gender, but I’m willing to bet that the fact that I write about scientific […]
Femisapien Robot
Friday, August 1st, 2008So I’m looking at the video of how to interact with the Femisapien robot, a “female” robot, and I’m impressed by the fact that the creators went with touch and gesture for interacting with the robot, rather than forcing interactions through a remote control. But I was disturbed by the whole “pat on the head” […]
Cross gender in MMOG
Monday, March 10th, 2008A good discussion by Richard Bartle dissecting the latest news about how people play with toons that aren’t their own gender in MMOGs. And, I guess, in any RPG that lets you roll either male or female toons.
The thing is, what long-time researchers know but newcomers don’t, is that the reasons people give are actually […]
The unbearable likeness of being digital
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I came across a discussion of the paper The unbearable likeness of being digital: The persistence of nonverbal social norms in online virtual environments, by Nick Yee, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Mark Urbanek, Francis Chang and Dan Merget, published in Cyberpsychology and Behavior, volume 10, no. 1, pp. 115-121, a copy of which is available at […]
About little girls
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Sarah is having a girl. Booya! I am campaigning to have her called Sylvie, but apparently Sarah’s husband doesn’t like the name. Pfff! What does he know? Sylvie is a beautiful name!
So now they’re looking for clothing, etc. for their coming bundle of joy, and Sarah is complaining bitterly about all the pink silliness she […]
