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Resource type: Journal Article Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1162/105474600566736 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1054-7460 BibTeX citation key: Durlach2000 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Immersion, Presence, Self-presence Creators: Durlach, Slater Publisher: MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Collection: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments |
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Abstract |
"This Forum article discusses the relationships among people, their avatars, and their virtual environment workstations in a shared virtual environment. It introduces the notion of togetherness, the sense of people being together in a shared space, which is the counterpart for shared VEs to the presence of an individual in a VE. The role of tactual communication is emphasized as being fundamental to togetherness."
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Notes |
Emphasizes the role of touch, of haptics, in promoting the sense of togetherness. Despite the abstract, it appears that togetherness is not the shared VE analog to presence in single-user VEs. It's never quite clear what the relationships is between presence and togertheness. The authors might have looked at Mantovani and Riva (1999) for a view of the cultural construction of presence. Mantovani, G., & Riva, G. (1999). "Real" presence: How different ontologies generate different criteria for presence, telepresence, and virtual presence. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 8(5), 540–550. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |