MESSAGE FROM DR. RON MILLIMAN

From: Brian Buhrow (buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org)
Date: Wed Jan 18 1995 - 16:31:25 PST


Greetings to all,

I have been reading this group's posts for some time, but have never
found it compelling to little more than read, up to this point.
however, I want to interject a point, from my prospective, as a
marketer, not as an engineer. I think what the R&D committee has
done, and is doing, and hopefully, will continue to do, is most
admirable, and I sincerely hope they will press on with furver.
However, many of the ideas shared in this forum deal with problems
that are defined by a "non-representative" segment of the total "blind
population." I suggest that funds be secured to conduct an in-depth
study of the needs of the more "normal blind" population, statistically
speaking, of course. The objective of such a study would be to
determine the central problems that need to be tackled by the more
typical blind person. Such a study may turn up absolutely nothing
new; however, it might turn up something that has been over looked.
Again, I am not being in anyway critical of the committee's work or
direction; the committee is pushing the fronteers that definitely
needs to be dealt with. I am simply suggesting that, from a marketing
viewpoint, rather than an engineering or, perhaps, somewhat less
representative prospective, there may be some important needs being
unintentionally ignored.

Respectfully submitted,

Dr. Ron Milliman, Professor of Marketing
Western Kentucky University

E-mail: RON.MILLIMAN@WKU.EDU



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