The official Proceedings for ISPR 2011, the International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference held October 26-28, 2011 at Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, are now available on the ISPR web site, http://ispr.info. The direct link to the Proceedings is here.

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Following tradition, ISPR Presence News posts will take a break while many of us gather this week for the ISPR 2011 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland (details on the web site).

If you can’t join us this year, please consider attending ISPR 2012 at this time next fall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Details and the call for papers will be coming soon!

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ISPR 2012 Conference Announcement

The board of directors of the International Society for Presence Research  is pleased to announce that ISPR 2012, the 14th international conference on all things presence and telepresence, will take place on Wednesday-Friday October 24-26, 2012 in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). Full details and the Call for Papers will be posted in ISPR Presence News and on the ISPR web site in the weeks ahead.

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The provisional programme for the upcoming ISPR 2011 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland has been announced and can be found below and on the conference web site here). Full details about the conference are here. Please join us!

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The ISPR Presence bibliography now contains nearly 3,000 academic journal articles, book chapters, books, theses and dissertations related to telepresence and presence. The free bibliography is available on the ISPR web site (under “About Presence”). The site now includes a web form for the submission of additional references as well as a series of visualizations of the current (tele)presence literature.

Because the scholarship related to (tele)presence is so interdisciplinary, standard indices and bibliographic databases include only pieces of the relevant literature; the use of the term “presence” as a shortened version of ”telepresence” makes searching for relevant literature even more difficult. The Presence bibliography on the ISPR site is the most comprehensive and inclusive available. The database was created using RefWorks and RefShare online software and features detailed bibliographic data including document abstracts, all accessible via advanced search options and in multiple viewing formats; the software can also be used to generate custom reference lists.  The process used to identify the works included in the database is outlined in

Lombard, M., & Jones M. T. (2007). Identifying the (Tele)Presence Literature. PsychNology Journal, 5(2), 197 – 206.

which is available online (in Acrobat .pdf format) here.

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Word cloud visualization of ISPR Presence News and Presence-L post titles

To provide a visual summary of what readers can find in ISPR Presence News items, we’ve used IBM’s Many Eyes software to create a word cloud based on the titles of the nearly 3,500 announcement posts on the Presence-L listserv from July 1999 to January 2010 and ISPR Presence News from January 2010 to July 1, 2011. The full-sized version of the word cloud can be found here; the list of titles used to generate the visualization are here (note that “Presence-related,” “News,” and “Call” were removed for the cloud). Please let us know what you think in the comments section for this post.

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Your reactions to Presence News items

ISPR Presence News has been limited to one-way communication about telepresence, but we want to know what you think about the diverse topics and ideas presented in our posts. So we’ve expanded the ISPR web site to  to include your comments on Presence News posts. You can add your reactions – ideas for studying phenomena, suggestions for expanding theories, predictions about future developments, references to relevant publications and other resources, reports about conference experiences, and anything else that could be of interest to the presence community -  at the bottom of any post on the site (they’ll be lightly moderated to avoid spam, flaming and other forms of inappropriateness). Please do share your insights with the presence community.

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