PRESENCE 2001

Conference Format and Schedule
The goal of PRESENCE 2001 was to bring together academic researchers in the area of media and presence, content and technology developers, and interested commercial parties so they could meet, share experiences, present research, and exchange ideas.
The Workshop had an interactive format in which all participants (attendees, presenters, invited speakers) attended each of the sessions. This unique format allowed all participants to exchange ideas and build knowledge together as the conference progressed. For this reason the number of attendees was limited to 100.
In addition to presentations and discussion, the Workshop featured an evening dinner event, a catered luncheon with guest speaker, and other guest speakers and events.
The PRESENCE 2001 schedule was as follows:

Presence 2001 Program Schedule

Day 1 - Monday May 21, 2001

8:45 - 9:15	Continental Breakfast, Kiva Auditorium

9:15 - 9:30	Welcome and Introductions Matthew Lombard, Conference Chair Concetta Stewart, Dean, School of Communications & Theater, Temple University

9:30 - 11:00	CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT: NEW DIRECTIONS (Panel 1) Presence: Is Your Heart In It? Cath Dillon, Edmund Keogh, Jonathan Freeman, and Jules Davidoff Goldsmiths College, London, England Duration Estimation and Presence Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, Ilse Bierhoff, and Yvonne Slangen-de Kort Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Objective Measures of Presence in Virtual Environments Michael Meehan, Brent Insko, Mary Whitton, and Fred Brooks University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA The Presence Equation: An Investigation Into Cognitive Factors Which Underlie Presence Within Non-Immersive Virtual Environments Corina Sas and G.M.P. O’Hare University College Dublin, Ireland Presence as Experience: Questionnaire Development to Assess Virtual Corpsing Tim Marsh University of York, York, England

11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45	CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT: PRESENCE WITH OTHERS (Panel 2) Conceptualizing, Differentiating and Measuring Copresence and Social Presence Kristine Nowak University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA Operationalizing Mediated Presence: Initial Steps Toward A Measure of the Construct Tracy Russo University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA A Taxonomy of Copresence: From Corporeal Copresence to Hypervirtual Telecopresence Shanyang Zhao Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA The Networked Minds Theory and Measure of Social Presence Frank Biocca, Judee Burgoon, Chad Harms, Jenn Gregg, Matt Stoner, and Tony Vitrano Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

12:45 - 2:15	Lunch at Diamond Club, Mitten Hall

2:15 - 3:15	FOCUS: UNDERSTANDING PRESENCE WITH OTHERS (Panel 3) Social Presence of Social Actors: Creating Social Presence with Machine-Generated Voices Kwan Min Lee and Cliff Nass Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA The Influence of Virtual Bodies and Agency on Copresence, Social Presence and Physical Presence Kristine Nowak, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA Frank Biocca, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Mediated Virtual Collaboration Ronald Rice, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, Nelson King, and Sulin Ba, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

3:15 - 3:30	Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:45	FOCUS: REFINING THE EXPERIENCE OF PRESENCE (Panel 4) Really Hear? The Effects Of Audio Quality On Presence Jane Lessiter, Jonathan Freeman, and Jules Davidoff Goldsmiths College, London, England Tele-immersion Portal: Towards an Ultimate Synthesis of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision Systems Amela Sadagic, Advanced Network and Services, Armonk, New York, USA Herman Towles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Loring Holden, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Bob Zeleznik, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA The Meaning of the Distance: Internet2 Performance Workshop Sarah Drury Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Tuning the Level of Presence (LOP Gerard J. Kim POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk, Korea

4:45 - 5:15	SYNTHESIS (Open Discussion)

6:30 - 7:30	Reception (cash bar) at the OMNI Hotel

7:30 - ?	Opening night dinner at the OMNI Hotel, featuring a special presentation including a Call for Participation in a new presence-related research project Matthew Lombard Click here for details (including menu choices)



Day 2 - Tuesday May 22, 2001

8:45 - 9:15	Continental Breakfast, Kiva Auditorium

9:15 - 10:30	EFFECTS OF PRESENCE: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Panel 5) Experiential E-commerce: Relationship of Physical and Social Presence to Consumer Learning, Attitudes, and Decision-Making Frank Biocca, Hairong Li, and Terry Daugherty Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA The Role of Telepresence in Exploratory Consumer Behavior Anne-Cécile Jeandrain Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Essay About Telepresence Effects On Persuasion: Three Possible Explanations Anne-Cécile Jeandrain Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Understanding the Role of Mapping in Web Sites James Coyle and Reetika Gupta Baruch College, CUNY, New York, USA

10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00	EFFECTS OF PRESENCE: SPATIAL PERCEPTION (Panel 6) Effects of Presence on Spatial Perception in Virtual Environments Jan Hofmann DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, Germany Virtual Environments As A Research Tool For Environmental Psychology: A Study Of Comparability Of Virtual And Real Environments Yvonne Slangen, Yvon Schuurmans, Jolien Kooijman and Wijnand Ijsselsteijn Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Cyclopean Vision, Size Estimation and Presence in Orthostereoscopic Images Bernard Harper University of Liverpool, England

12:00 - 1:30	Lunch in Kiva Auditorium, with demonstration by Bernard Harper (see Panel 6)

1:30 - 2:45	EFFECTS OF PRESENCE: LEARNING AND TRAINING (Panel 7) A Model Of The Psychology Of Virtual Learning Melissa Selverian, Ha Sung Hwang, and Cheyenne Mason Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Does 'Presence' Impact On Student Learning? The Effects Of Audio On Students' Conceptual Learning Anne Jelfs and Denise Whitelock IET Open University, Miton Keynes, England [Presentation has been cancelled] Passive Haptics Increases Training Effectiveness in Virtual Environments Brent E. Insko, Michael J. Meehan, Mary C. Whitton, and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Interfaces for Navigation and Familiarity Training Michael Eckmann, Yu Li, Terry Boult, and G. Drew Kessler

2:45 - ?	Exploring Philadelphia - An afternoon and evening of special activities selected and hosted by members of the PRESENCE 2001 Organizing Committee. Registrants will be contacted via e-mail regarding these activities prior to the conference Historic Philadelphia: Melissa Selverian and Bill Davis will take you back to Philadelphia's history through its sights, sounds and food. You'll visit Independence National Historic Park, the birthplace of the United States which houses Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and Old City Hall among many other landmarks; have dinner at the famous colonial era City Tavern Restaurant; and attend the multimedia "Sounds of Liberty" Presentation at the end of the evening. Art & Science: Gisela Gil-Egui will lead a unique visit to Philadelphia's art and science resources: explore the area on a brief loop around Center City in Philadelphia's tourism shuttle (PHLASH), enjoy city and river vistas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, visit the Rodin Museum, take a guided tour and see an IMAX film at the Franklin Institute of Science, and enjoy a leisurely dinner at the Dock Street Brewery. Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Old and New: Selcan Kaynak will take you from the Old City area, an open museum of Philadelphia's 300 years of architecture with many examples of Colonial and Federal architecture, to South Philadelphia, a lively and colorful neighborhood with a traditionally Italian presence, where you can visit an open air food market, taste a 'real' Philly cheesesteak at South Philly's famous Pat's or it's across-the-street rival Geno's, and enjoy the bars, coffee houses and many unusual stores on South Street. Fairmount Park Bike Tour: Linda Greenwood will be the guide for a bike tour through Philadelphia's beautiful Fairmount Park, the largest landscaped park in the United States. You'll have a chance to survey historic Boathouse Row mansions located in the Park, visit Laurel Hill Cemetery, where several signers of the Declaration of Independence are interred, and have a picnic in one of the many scenic areas overlooking the Schuylkill river.



Day 3 - Wednesday May 23, 2001

8:45 - 9:15	Continental Breakfast, Kiva Auditorium

9:15 - 10:15	FOCUS: PRESENCE IN ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENTS (Panel 8) Importance of Identification in Shaping Responses to Messages Mike Basil University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Virtual Team Interactions in Networked Multimedia Games - Case: "Counter-Strike" - Multi-player 3D Action Game Tony Manninen Presence Revisited: Imagination, Competence, and Activity in Text-Based Virtual Worlds David Jacobson

10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45	FOCUS: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF PRESENCE (Panel 9) Media Psychology Is Not Yet There: Introducing Theories On The Reception Of Entertaining Media To The Presence Debate Christoph Klimmt and Peter Vorderer Hannover University of Music and Drama, Hannover, Germany Cognitive Style And Presence In Virtual Environments Adam Finkelstein The Illusion Of Being Present - Use Of The Tent To Create Immersive Experiences And Its Effect On Emotions John and Eva Waterworth, Interactive Institute, Tools for Creativity Studio, Umea, Sweden Rita Lauria, Media Interface and Design Lab, USA

11:45 - 12:00	Walk to Shusterman Hall

12:00 - 2:30	Lunch, KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Carrie Heeter, and SYNTHESIS (open discussion) Click here for more information.

2:30 - ?	PRESENTATIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS The Tent John and Eva Waterworth, Interactive Institute, Tools for Creativity Studio, Umea, Sweden Rita Lauria, Media Interface and Design Lab, USA Electronic Presence and Vision Science: Demonstration of an Unconventional Full-motion Electronic Imaging System and a Discussion of Neurological Precepts for Advanced Devices Richard Solomon, Program On Vision Science & Advanced Networking, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Eric Rosenthal, Media Research Lab, New York University, USA Immersive Remote Reality Using Omnidirectional Video Michael Eckmann, Yu Li, Terry Boult, and G. Drew Kessler