PRESENCE 2002

5th Annual International Workshop on Presence
October 9-11, 2002
Porto, Portugal

PRESENCE 2002 took place at University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal October 9-11, 2002. It was organized by ISPR and hosted by the Media Interface and Network Design Lab, University Fernando Pessoa, a member of the international network of M.I.N.D. Labs and held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and with the support of Banco Espírito Santo, Fundação Fernando Pessoa.

Below is a list of the papers and presentations from the conference, in alphabetical order by author name, with links to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files containing each paper.

The complete conference proceedings are available in a large (7.3 mb) .pdf file here; the conference program is available here.

A photo gallery from the conference is available here.

If you have questions or problems, please send an e-mail message to help@ispr.info.

The EMMA project: Engaging media for mental health applications
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The concept of therapeutic presence in nursing
Phyllis du Mont

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

Presence in the emotional spac e
Margot Jacobs, Laura Polazzi, Kristina Andersen