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Heeter, C. (2003). Reflections on real presence by a virtual person. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12(4), 335–345. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (01/03/2018, 12:50) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1162/105474603322391587 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1054-7460 BibTeX citation key: Heeter2003 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Immersion, Presence, Self-presence Creators: Heeter Publisher: MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Collection: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments |
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"I have lived in San Francisco while working as a full-time virtual faculty member for Michigan State University for nearly six years. Unlike most humans, I spend a larger proportion of every day as a virtual person than as a physical person. This article is adapted from a keynote speech I delivered at the Fourth International Workshop on Presence in Philadelphia in May of 2001. I use a personal narrative style to explore issues and to question some of the research community's prevailing assumptions about presence.
Lombard and Ditton's (1997) frequently cited conceptualization defines presence as a “perceptual illusion of nonmediation” that occurs “when a person fails to perceive or acknowledge the existence of a medium in his/her communication environment and responds as he/she would if the medium were not there.” The underlying assumption is that, in the absence of technology, everyone experiences continuous presence at a constant intensity throughout their lives. Instead, this article suggests that presence is not a constant of everyday nonmediated experience. Careful consideration of unmediated (real) presence might help the conceptualization and study of mediated presence." Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |