Proceedings

PRESENCE 2002 took place October 9-11 and was hosted by the Media Interface and Network Design Lab, University Fernando Pessoa, a member of the international network of M.I.N.D. Labs.

It was held in cooperation with SIGCHI and with the support of Banco Espírito Santo, Fundação Fernando Pessoa.

Pictures of the workshop are available online here.

A list of the papers and presentations from the conference with links to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files containing each paper, is below. Click here to view or download the complete conference proceedings in a large (7.3 mb) file. Click here for the complete program.

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October 9

Panel 1: Theory I

Frank Biocca, Chad Harms:
Defining and measuring social presence: Contribution to the networked minds theory and measure

Markus von der Heyde, Bernhard E. Riecke:
Embedding presence-related terminology in a logical and functional model

Thomas Schubert, Jan Crusius:
Five theses on the book problem: Presence in books, film and VR

Panel 2: Refining the experience of Presence I

Joel Jordan, J. Mortensen, M. Oliveira, M. Slater:
Collaboration in a mediated haptic environment

Jens Arnspang, David Benyon, Manfred W. Fahle, Erik Granum, Claus B. Madsen, Tomas Pajdla, Shmuel Peleg, Michael Smyth, Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Daphna Weinshall:
An investigation into virtual representations of real places

Timo Saari:
Designing mind-based media and communications technologies

Panel 3: Applications I

Barbara Deml, B. Färber:
Development of a design guide for telepresence – teleactions systems

Roman Zygmunt Kacprzak, Klaus Schilling:
Tele-presence interfaces for the teleoperations of mobile robots

Daniela M. Romano, Paul Brna:
Collaboration, presence and performance in virtual learning environments: Can collaboration be used to measure shared presence?

Panel 4: Measurement I

Niklas Ravaja:
Presence-related influences of a small talking facial image on psychophysiological measures of emotion and attention

Holger Regenbrecht, Thomas Schubert:
Measuring presence in augmented reality environments: Design and a first test of a questionnaire

Alois Schlögl, Mel Slater, Gert Pfurtscheller:
Presence research and EEG

Xavier Rétaux:
A subjective measure of presence feeling: The autoconfrontation method

October 10

Panel 5: Applications II

John Waterworth, Eva Waterworth, Jonas Westling:
Presence as performance: The mystique of digital participation

Phyllis du Mont:
The concept of therapeutic presence in nursing

Mariano Alcañiz, Rosa Baños, Cristina Botella, Paolo Cottone, Jonathan Freeman, Andrea Gaggioli, Edward Keogh, Fabrizia Mantovani, Giuseppe Mantovani, Javier Montesa, Concepción Perpiñá, Beatriz Rey, Giuseppe Riva, John Waterworth:
The EMMA project: Engaging media for mental health applications

Erik Champion:
Cultural engagement in virtual heritage environments with inbuilt interactive evaluation mechanisms

Panel 6: Measurement II

Luís Borges Gouveia, Feliz Gouveia:
Evaluative ethnography and systems design: Can it also be used to assess presence?

Cath Dillon, Ed Keogh, Jonathan Freeman:
It's been emotional: Affect, physiology, and presence

Gary Bente, Nicole C. Krämer:
Virtual gestures: Analyzing social presence effects of computer-mediated and computer-generated nonverbal behaviour

Panel 7: Theory II

Wijnand IJsselsteijn:
Elements of a multi-level theory of presence: Phenomenology, mental processing and neural correlates

Shanyang Zhao:
Reconceptualizing presence: Differentiating between mode of presence and sense of presence

Antonia Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque, Luiz Velho:
Togetherness through virtual worlds: How real can be that presence?

Panel 8: Refining the experience of Presence II

Ralph Schroeder:
Copresence and interaction in virtual environments: An overview of the range of issues

Katerina Mania, Andy Robinson:
Fidelity based on the schema memory theory: An experimental study

October 11

Panel 9:Theory III

Giuseppe Riva, G. Castelnuovo, A. Gaggioli, F. Mantovani:
Towards a cultural approach to presence

Kimberly R. Swinth, Jim Blascovich:
Perceiving and responding to others: Human-human and human-computer social interaction in collaborative virtual environments

Margot Jacobs, Laura Polazzi, Kristina Andersen:
Presence in the emotional space

Anna Spagnolli, Luciano Gamberini:
IMMERSION/EMERSION: Presence in hybrid environments

Panel 10: Refining the experience of Presence III

Cedar Riener, Dennis Proffitt:
Quantifying spatial presence

Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Renée A. Botta:
Presence and television: Form versus content

Prabu David, Tingting Lu, Li Cai:
Computers as social actors: Testing the fairness of man and machine

Panel 11: Refining the experience of Presence IV

Frank Biocca, Yasuhiro Inoue, Andy Lee, Heather Polinsky, Arthur Tang:
Visual cues and virtual touch: Role of visual stimuli and intersensory integration in cross-modal haptic illusions and the sense of presence

Radhika Kaushik, Prabu David, Susan Kline, D’Arcy John Oaks:
Social presence effects: A study of CMC vs.FtF in a collaborative fiction project