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Herrera, G., Jordan, R., & Vera, L. (2006). Agency and presence: A common dependence on subjectivity? Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(5), 539–552. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (09/03/2018, 10:13) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (14/08/2020, 15:35) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1162/pres.15.5.539 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1054-7460 BibTeX citation key: Herrera2006 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Agency, Immersion, Presence, Self-presence Creators: Herrera, Jordan, Vera Publisher: MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Collection: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments |
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"This paper argues that presence, as shown in virtual environments, can usefully be seen as comprising various subtypes and that these in turn may have common conceptual and ontological features with a sense of agency as defined by Russell (1996, Agency: Its Role in Mental Development, Erlbaum.). Furthermore, an analysis of Russell's characterization of the concept of agency may be useful for acquiring insight into the sense of presence itself and the variables affecting it. Empirical evidence from cognitive developmental research and the positive results of attempts to develop symbolic understanding in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in virtual environments suggest that presence may be more about experiencing agency than either pretending to be there or constructing and reconstructing mental models in real time. This analysis is used to shed some light on the current issues of presence research and to open up new philosophical and psychological aspects, in relation to both presence and ASD."
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p.539
Their definition of agency is "the exercise of a capacity for first person experience [that includes] information-processing and control [and] self-knowledge that is available to agents and to agents alone."
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Keywords: Agency Immersion Presence |
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pp.540–541
"Presence, then, can be considered to be a conceptualization for virtual environments of the conscious awareness of self, as both agent and experiencer, which characterizes the experiencing self of natural environments (i.e., using Brewer’s conceptualization)." (Brewer 1986) Brewer, W. F. (1986). What is autobiographical memory? In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Autobiographical memory (pp. 25–49). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Keywords: Immersion Presence Presence (definition) |
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p.541
"Agency, then, is a regulating variable or, if preferred, one of the components that correlates with (and perhaps determines) the level and type of presence obtained."
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Keywords: Immersion Presence Agency |
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pp.541–542
"The perceptions we receive from our senses have a very important role in the configuration of the sense of being there as they keep us connected with reality at every moment. Relevant here is the concept of affordances as noted by Zahorik et al. (1998) in the context of artificial environments. Affordances, as Gibson suggested (Gibson & Walker, 1984), define the opportunities for perception and action offered by the environment in the context of the individual’s capacities: they are things that one perceives directly (without the need of a mental representation process)." Zahorik, P., & Jenison, R. L. (1998). Presence as being-in-the-world. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 7(1), 78–89. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Keywords: Agency Immersion Presence |
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p.542
"it is through inter-subjectivity that we are enabled to take a subjective stance and thus have a sense of presence."
Keywords: Agency Immersion Presence |