PROCEEDINGS

The 4th Annual International
Workshop on Presence 
Philadelphia, USA - May 21-23, 2001

Academics and practitioners with an interest in research, theory, and applications related to the concept of presence came together to attend PRESENCE 2001 at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, May 21-23, 2001. This web site contains the Proceedings of the PRESENCE 2001 event; follow the links below to...

• Read papers, view presentations, and [coming soon] hear audio segments from PRESENCE 2001 authors/presenters

• See contact information for some of the attendees of PRESENCE 2001 (in Microsoft Excel format)

• View images from PRESENCE 2001 events

PRESENCE 2001 was the fourth in a series of highly successful International Workshops on Presence (see the web site of the International Society for Presence Research) and the first to be held in the United States.

PRESENCE 2001 provided an open discussion forum to share ideas regarding concepts and theories, measurement techniques, and applications regarding presence, the psychological state or subjective perception in which a person fails to accurately and completely acknowledge the role of technology in an experience, including the sense of 'being there' experienced by users of advanced media such as virtual reality.

Papers, videos, and demonstrations regarding completed or ongoing work were presented in areas such as: 

• Explications of the presence concept 
• Presence evaluation/measurement methodologies
• Causes and consequences (effects) of presence 
• Presence in shared virtual environments and online communities 
• Social/affective interfaces, virtual agents, parasocial interactions
• Presence-associated technologies: 

- Immersive, interactive, multimodal displays
- Advanced broadcast/cinematic displays (stereoscopic TV, HDTV,  IMAX, OMNIMAX) 
- Virtual environments/simulators 
• Presence applications :

- Education and training 
- Medicine and therapy 
- Entertainment
- Communication 
- Teleoperation 
• Presence and design
• Presence in art 
• Presence and philosophical issues (e.g., the nature of 'reality')
• The ethics of presence 
• Presence in the future: Media experiences in the 21st century and beyond 

Some of the presentations at PRESENCE 2001 will appear in a forthcoming special issue of the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.

For more information regarding PRESENCE 2001, please follow the links above and at the left of each page on this web site.

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