Re: Human-Computer Interaction

Olga Marchenko (olyam who-is-at rtsnet.ru)
Tue, 19 May 1998 19:14:32 +0400

It is hard to say about culturally favored dispositional differences between
men and women in terms of whether they interact with the computer in a
predominantly analytical and planned-in-advance, structured fashion or in a
more "intimate" and quasi-interpersonal way. According to our observation
there exists operational (manipulatunal) and communicational
(conversational) types of interaction (work) with a computer. Confusion of
the types is one of the reasons for computer barrier in telecommunication.
This fhenomenon was discribed in our paper and presented at the 5th
East-West International Conference (Moscow, 1995). As we observed it does
not depend on the gender, but it is displaid
by humanities much more brightly than other scholars.

Olga Marchenko,
Institute of Psychology,
Moscow
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