At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence

Lombard, Matthew; Ditton, Theresa Bolmarcich

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00072.x

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“…The users also seemed to prefer the more expressive face to a relatively impassive one (see also Sproull et al, 1996, for related results). These studies suggest that the computer can exhibit "presence" in the second of the two broad senses distinguished by Lombard and Ditton (1997). It is not clear that the results of these studies apply to survey interfaces.…”

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Sensitive questions in surveys.

Tourangeau¹,

Yan²

2007

Psychological Bulletin

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Psychologists have worried about the distortions introduced into standardized personality measures by social desirability bias. Survey researchers have had similar concerns about the accuracy of survey reports about such topics as illicit drug use, abortion, and sexual behavior. The article reviews the research done by survey methodologists on reporting errors in surveys on sensitive topics, noting parallels and differences from the psychological literature on social desirability. The findings from the survey studies suggest that misreporting about sensitive topics is quite common and that it is largely situational. The extent of misreporting depends on whether the respondent has anything embarrassing to report and on design features of the survey. The survey evidence also indicates that misreporting on sensitive topics is a more or less motivated process in which respondents edit the information they report to avoid embarrassing themselves in the presence of an interviewer or to avoid repercussions from third parties.

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Section: A Variety Of New Technologies Attempt To Create An Illusionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Sensitive questions in surveys.

Tourangeau¹,

Yan²

2007

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Presence should be distinguished from immersion and considered more correctly as "a 'response' to a system of a certain level of immersion" (Slater, 2003). Compared to Lombard and Ditton's (1997) original conception of presence as the "perceptual illusion of non-mediation" or to the previous definition "suspension of disbelief" proposed by Slater and Usoh (1993), this distinction between immersion and presence disuntangle the concept of presence as an experience from the technological and artificial substrates that are used to generate it.…”

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“…To achieve this, VR technologies have been classically conceived within a cybernetic approach, placing the human subject at the core of a feedback control loop where multi-media technologies substitute all interaction with the external world. Pioneers of VR began to describe this 'presence' as the "illusion of non-mediation" (Lombard & Ditton, 1997) or the "suspension of disbelief" (Slater & Usoh, 1993), which occurs when the subject reports a transfer of presence from reality to the immersive virtual environment. This is directly linked to the mechanisms by which our experience of being a self in the world, termed bodily self-consciousness, is constructed using multisensory information.…”

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5. Neural Mechanisms of Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Experience of Presence in Virtual Reality

Herbelin¹,

Salomon²,

Serino³

et al. 2015

Human Computer Confluence

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Recent neuroscience research emphasizes the embodied origins of the experience of the self. This chapter shows that further advances in the understanding of the phenomenon of VR-induced presence might be achieved in connection with advances in the understanding of the brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness. By reviewing the neural mechanisms that make the virtual reality experience possible and the neurocognitive models of bodily self-consciousness, we highlight how the development of applied human computer confluence technologies and the fundamental scientific investigation of bodily self-consciousness benefit from each other in a symbiotic manner.

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“…It provides the feeling of "being there," in other words of "presence" defined as the perceptual illusion of nonmediation. 12 Most of us have experienced vection in real life contexts, perhaps when suddenly realizing that it's not the train that we are in that is departing, but the one on the next track. Another instance would be while we are stopped at a traffic light.…”

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Screen Position and Proprioception

Boucher¹

2014

IJSD

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My contribution to critical and artistic dialogues within the intersecting fields of dance and screen-based images consists in examining the role of peripheral vision in the perception of dance in artistic contexts where projections are used. There is, as I will point out, sufficient evidence from phenomenological and neuro-physiological accounts to conclude that motion perception is affected by peripheral visual perceptions. Consequently, it is maintained that the spectator's experience of dance, especially when screens are involved, depends to some degree on peripheral visual perception, which in turn contributes to proprioception. In the installations that I will discuss here, the viewer's proprioception, or ability to sense his or her body's position, motion, and equilibrium, is addressed according to the way the screens are placed in relation to him or her. As with staged dances where projections are used, we will concern ourselves with the relationship of the dancer to the screen as seen from the seated viewer's perspective. Projection screen installations combining live dance performance will also be looked into. My interpretation of "screendance" therefore does not refer to dance film or dance video. Instead, I investigate the perceptual contexts where the screen can be said to be part of the scenography and, likewise, the projection part of the choreography. With digital multimedia, the distinction between scenography and choreography can be blurry, and many artists aim precisely to meld them together. What constitutes a screen now encompasses much more than the standard white flat rectangle.The question of image content is certainly not irrelevant here, but it is not my main concern. What is of prime importance in my analysis is the dynamic value of the images that fall on the viewer's retina: how the visual field is filled and how that affects the viewer's proprioception. The question I wish to address most precisely is how peripheral visual perception informs proprioception in such a way that it allows the spectator to feel movements that are not of his or her making as if they were his or hers. 1 Before we go any further, a primary distinction must be made between two different yet complementary vision systems, central vision and peripheral vision. Although one learns in high school about the "rods" and the "cones"-the latter's sensitivity to form and color, and the former's to contrast and movement-little mention is ever made of them again. Were it not for the needs of flight simulators, the research into peripheral vision would certainly not be as rich as it is now. 2 What has emerged from such research is deeper knowledge concerning the intimate connection between vision and balance. The Central Nervous System (CNS) relies on visual cues from the environment in order for us to not only locate ourselves in it, but to move in it. The CNS has no direct access to the world; it therefore must make

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At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence

Cited by 2,269 publications

References 89 publications

Sensitive questions in surveys.

Sensitive questions in surveys.

5. Neural Mechanisms of Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Experience of Presence in Virtual Reality

Screen Position and Proprioception

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