[Apologies for re-posting but we want to get as much input from the presence community (and beyond) as possible.] ISPR News and Call for Participation: Help choose the location and timing of PRESENCE 2024 As those who’ve attended them know, ISPR’s PRESENCE conferences, held in cities from Suffolk, England in 1998 to Prague in 2018 and most recently online during the pandemic, have always been productive and enjoyable professional and social events. They’re single-track, informal and everyone there is interested in presence. The panels are organized and scheduled to take advantage of our physical copresence (!) and encourage interesting, useful,…

ISPR News and Call for Participation: Help choose the location and timing of PRESENCE 2024 As those who’ve attended them know, ISPR’s PRESENCE conferences, held in cities from Suffolk, England in 1998 to Prague in 2018 and most recently online during the pandemic, have always been productive and enjoyable professional and social events. They’re single-track, informal and everyone there is interested in presence. The panels are organized and scheduled to take advantage of our physical copresence (!) and encourage interesting, useful, unrushed discussions that continue during breaks and meals. We’re now planning the first in-person PRESENCE conference since before the…

ISPR News and Call for Participation: Help choose the location and timing of PRESENCE 2024 As those who’ve attended them know, ISPR’s PRESENCE conferences, held in cities from Suffolk, England in 1998 to Prague in 2018 and most recently online during the pandemic, have always been productive and enjoyable professional and social events. They’re single-track, informal and everyone there is interested in presence. The panels are organized and scheduled to take advantage of our physical copresence (!) and encourage interesting, useful, unrushed discussions that continue during breaks and meals. We’re now planning the first in-person PRESENCE conference since before the…

As many ISPR members and ISPR Presence News readers know, we’ve been working for a long time toward the creation of a new journal focused on presence, an open access journal with no publication charges that is open to a wide variety of interdisciplinary presence-related topics, research methods, and presentation formats. We’re not quite ready for an official roll-out but you can now visit the website of ISPR’s International Journal of Telepresence (IJT) at https://ijtelepresence.org. There you’ll find not only the detailed Call for Submissions (excerpted below) but two excellent initial published articles by our colleagues (direct links below). The…

This is a last reminder that you’re invited to join us as we gather online tomorrow (Friday, October 23) for the PRESENCE 2020 conference. We’ll do everything possible to retain the informal, social nature of the in-person PRESENCE conferences and in addition to keeping us all safe, meeting online means the conference is free. The program for the day-long event is available on the conference website here, and you can register here. If you have any questions please e-mail Hocheol Yang at hyang25@calpoly.edu and/or me at lombard@temple.edu. We’re looking forward to “being with” you! –Matthew, on behalf of the organizing…

[The PRESENCE 2020 conference is coming up next Friday, October 23. We’ll be completely online for obvious reasons but we’ll do everything possible to retain the informal, social nature of the in-person PRESENCE conferences. And because it’s online it’ll be completely free. The program for the day-long event is below, and you can register here. If you have any questions or concerns about the conference please e-mail me (lombard@temple.edu). We’re looking forward to “being with” many of you next week! –Matthew, on behalf of the organizing committee] PRESENCE 2020 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) Online…

[The formal deadline for PRESENCE 2020 submissions remains Wednesday August 20, but given the circumstances of this dystopian year submissions will continue to be accepted. If you plan to submit your work, and we hope you do!, or if you just have questions about the (free) event, please let us know by sending an email to me at lombard@temple.edu. –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS PRESENCE 2020 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) Online + Synchronous October 23, 2020 https://ispr.info/call-presence-2020 This Call for Papers in pdf format Conference theme: Presence during and after the pandemic The 18th PRESENCE conference…

[The deadline for PRESENCE 2020 submissions has been extended to August 20 – the updated Call for Papers is below; please consider submitting your work (or just attending)… –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS PRESENCE 2020 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) Online + Synchronous October 23, 2020 https://ispr.info/call-presence-2020 This Call for Papers in pdf format Conference theme: Presence during and after the pandemic The 18th PRESENCE conference will take place as a one-day, fast-track online conference. All presence topics are also welcome but submissions related to early phase projects, papers, and studies about the impacts of the…

[As with so many conferences planned for this summer and fall, ISPR is changing our plans for PRESENCE 2020. We’ll meet online on October 23 via Zoom for presentations and discussions about our usual wide variety of presence topics as well as the many impacts of Coronavirus on presence phenomena now and going forward. We’ll also leave time for informal social interactions. More details are below; feel free to be in touch with any questions. Please distribute this call through your professional networks, consider submitting your work by the new August 1 deadline, and join us for the first online…

CALL FOR PAPERS PRESENCE 2020 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) Orlando, Florida, USA October 23-25, 2020 https://ispr.info/call-presence-2020 Conference theme: World of presence Submission deadline: June 1, 2020 (with some flexibility – email us if you need a few extra days) Online submissions should be submitted via EasyChair.  Notification of acceptance decisions: July 1, 2020 Finished, camera-ready papers due: October 1, 2020 Coronavirus notice: We have no plans to cancel this in-person conference event but will offer a virtual component for anyone who isn’t able to attend. It would be ironic if presence experts didn’t offer…