ISPR Presence News publication schedule for first week of October ISPR Presence News will not be published next week while some of us attend the 17th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Berlin, Germany. ISPR Presence News will return on Monday October 10. If you’re interested in more presence-related news and fun stuff (including pictures from an AoIR panel on augmented reality), please join our open/public/free ISPR Presence Community Facebook group. –Matthew Lombard (managing editor)…

ISPR Presence News publication schedule for June ISPR Presence News will not be published for the next two weeks while some of us gather in Kyoto, Japan for “The Power of Presence: Using Telepresence Theory, Research and Applications to Enhance Mediated Communication Experiences in the 21st Century,” the ISPR co-sponsored preconference of the International Communication Association (ICA) conference being held in Fukuoka, Japan. ISPR Presence News will return on Monday June 20. If you’re interested in more presence-related news and fun stuff (including pictures from the preconference!), please join our open/public/free ISPR Presence Community Facebook group. –Matthew Lombard (managing editor)…

An important announcement: The International Society for Presence Research has established a new group on Facebook, the ISPR Presence Community group, and you’re invited to join. As the name implies, we hope it enhances the sense of community among those who study, design, market and/or are just interested in any aspect of (tele)presence. I’ll post images and links to stories I find that don’t fit in ISPR Presence News and all group members are encouraged to post anything that they think might be of interest or value to the community. This group is completely public and of course free, and…

We’re working hard on what we think will be a valuable new resource for everyone interested in (tele)presence; watch this space for details soon! -Matthew …

As managing editor I want to note a milestone: This is the 3,000th post of ISPR Presence News. Combined with the 2,719 posts in its predecessor, the Presence-L listserv, I’ve posted over 5,700 informational items related to (tele)presence since July 1999. See the FAQ for a short explanation of why I’ve done it, but I remain as intrigued with the topic as ever and see amazing things ahead for presence (though maybe not as quickly as some), and for ISPR – watch this space later this week for an announcement about our 2016 conference event and more. Thanks for being…

Apologies for yesterday’s (and occasional other) technical failures that have resulted in the inconsistent distribution of ISPR Presence News posts. I’ll spare you the always frustrating and usually mysterious explanations and just remind you that you can now access posts via individual, daily and weekly digest emails, Facebook, Twitter, RSS feed and/or the ISPR web site. More details are on the subscription page of the ISPR web site and in this FAQ post. If you have questions, concerns, suggestions, etc., please contact me directly at lombard@temple.edu. Best regards from Philadelphia, Matthew Lombard Managing editor, ISPR Presence News…

ISPR has established a new benefit for our members, a forum for informal posts and discussion about all things related to (tele)presence. The closed Facebook group is called “ISPR Members” and we hope it will replace the more interactive functions of the old Presence-L listserv (the predecessor of ISPR Presence News). We’re opening the group to both past and current members of ISPR, including anyone who has attended one of the 15 ISPR (and pre-ISPR) Presence conferences. Of course unfortunately there’s no perfect or universal venue for this, but if you use (or have been thinking of using) Facebook and…

[Image © M/G Felnhofer] Great thanks to the many people who made the ISPR 2014 conference in Vienna such a success, especially the Conference Chairs Anna Felnhofer and Oswald D. Kothgassner. It was another wonderfully productive, interesting and very enjoyable Presence conference (watch ISPR Presence News for announcements about the next conference as well as other ISPR developments). The official conference Proceedings are available now in book form from Amazon and Facultas and will be available via links to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files containing each paper on the ISPR web site beginning this September (they’re listed there now). We had…