More on meaning of Presence

Dear Giulio,
I was back today from a conference. I agree a lot on your first statement: the main goal is to understand how the brain constructs the model of reality and self.

Your definition of Hyper Presence is similar to the one of Media Presence introduced by Coelho and colleagues:

http://www.vepsy.com/communication/book7/9_2_Coelho.pdf

This is the abstract:

Abstract. Presence is widely accepted as the key concept to be considered in any research involving human interaction with Virtual Reality (VR). Since its original description, the concept of presence has developed over the past decade to be considered by many researchers as the essence of any experience in a virtual environment.

The VR generating systems comprise two main parts: a technological component and a psychological experience. The different relevance given to them produced two different but coexisting visions of presence: the rationalist and the psychological/ecological points of view. The rationalist point of view considers a VR system as a collection of specific machines with the necessity of the inclusion of the concept of presence. The researchers agreeing with this approach describe the sense of presence as a function of the experience of a given medium (Media Presence). The main result of this approach is the definition of presence as the perceptual illusion of non-mediation produced by means of the disappearance of the medium from the conscious attention of the subject. At the other extreme, there is the psychological or ecological perspective (Inner Presence). Specifically, this perspective considers presence as a neuropsychological phenomenon, evolved from the interplay of our biological and cultural inheritance, whose goal is the control of the human activity.

Apparently we have a common research field - Presence - that deals with the way the brain constructs the model of reality and self.

- Media Presence/Hyper Presence is focused on how techology can simulate the way brain constructs the model of reality and self.

- Inner Presence is is focused on how brain constructs the model of reality and self.

Giuseppe

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Dear Giuseppe,

Excellent: common ground!

Minor refinements:

- Presence - deals with the way the brain constructs the model of reality and self.

-Media Presence/Hyper Presence is focused on how immersive technology can alter the way brain constructs the model of reality and self.

- Inner Presence is is focused on how brain constructs the model of reality and self.

Giulio
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Giulio, We still also need a model of how people construct a model of the other or others that they experience presence with – ie. copresence or social presence!
Ralph

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Dear Giulio, to cope with Ralph's remark, that is surely relevant, you can change "self" with "selves" in the below definitions. It is an easy way not to forget Social Presence research in Presence agenda. Ciao. Giuseppe
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Dear Giuseppe, Ralph, Hmm, I am more binary about this.

There is me, then the rest (the "not me"). The "not me", or reality, includes others as part of the scenery. My brain builds models of other people as well. You may not exist after all...he he.

- Presence - deals with the way the brain constructs the model of
self and reality--including others.

Giulio
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