International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference – ISPR 2012
October 24 – 26, 2012
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
[ PROCEEDINGS ISBN: 978-0-9792217-5-0 ]
ISPR 2012 was hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia, October 24-26, 2012.
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.
Links to press coverage of the conference are available here.
A gallery of photos from the event is available at Comemories here.
If you have questions or problems, please send an e-mail message to help@ispr.info.
Can We Identify with a Block? Identification with Non-anthropomorphic Avatars in Virtual Reality Games
Laura Aymerich-Franch
Effects of Facial and Voice Similarity on Presence in a Public Speaking Virtual Environment
Laura Aymerich-Franch, Cody Karutz and Jeremy N. Bailenson
Presence and Memory: Immersive Virtual Reality Effects on Cued Recall
Jakki Bailey, Andrea Stevenson Won, Jeremy Bailenson, June A. Flora and K. Carrie Armel
Is Text Always Superior to Video? Investigating the Impact of Moving Images, Standard Video, and Text on Presence
Sean Bambrick, Robert Whitbred, Paul Skalski and Cheryl Bracken
A Presence Timeline
Darren Bau-Madsen and Matthew Lombard
Exploring Facebook’s Success through Presence
Angela M. Cirucci
How Immersive Is Enough?: A Foundation for a Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Immersive Technology on Measured Presence
James Cummings, Jeremy Bailenson and Mailyn Fidler
Intimate Telepresence: Perpetual Contact and the Channels of Presence in Mobile Communication
Julia Czaja
Getting Into the Meeting-Feeling: An Explorative Analysis of Presence in Videoconferencing
Shirley Elprama, Katriina Kilpi, Aljosha Demeulemeester, An Jacobs and Rik Van de Walle
SECOND TOP PAPER (TIE): Is Virtual Reality Made for Men Only? Exploring Gender Differences in the Sense of Presence
Anna Felnhofer, Oswald D. Kothgassner, Leon Beutl, Helmut Hlavacs and Ilse Kryspin-Exner
Shared Mediated Workspaces
Charlie Gullstrom, Tjerk de Greef, Leif Handberg, Harold Nefs and Peter Parnes
Positive Feedback Messages and the Role of Presence during Exercise Video Game Play
Jihyun Kim and C. Erik Timmerman
What are Telepresence Experiences Like in the Real World? A Qualitative Survey
Matthew Lombard and Lisa Weinstein
Comparing the Effects of Transportation and Central Processing on Current and Future Beneficial Organizational Behaviors
Matt Makowski, Robert Whitbred, Cheryl Campanella Bracken and Paul Skalski
The Effect of Motion on Presence during Virtual Sailing for Advanced Training
Fabian A. Mulder, Jouke C. Verlinden and Radoslaw R. Dukalski
The Role of Post-Production Formal Features in the Prediction of Presence
Kimberly Neuendorf, Paul Skalski, James Denny, Rachel Campbell and Matthew Egizii
Beyond Embodiment and Social Presence: Preferences for Virtual Assistant Gender and Clothing Style
Jeunese Payne, Andrea Szymkowiak, Graham I. Johnson, Paul Robertson and Rosemary Henderson
Evaluating the Importance of Human Realistic Walking Simulation for Creating Realistic Characters
Mei Si
Need for Presence and Other Motivations for Video Game Play across Genres
Paul Skalski, Francis Dalisay, Matthew Kushin and Yung-I Liu
Tracking Gesture to Detect Gender
Andrea Stevenson Won, Le Yu, Joris Janssen and Jeremy Bailenson
TOP PAPER: Panel: Considerations for Social Presence Theory, Research, and Application in the 21st Century
David Westerman, Paul Skalski, Brian Blake, Kimberly Neuendorf, and Stephanie Kelly
SECOND TOP PAPER (TIE): Avatar Self-Identification as a Cognitive Metric of Self-Presence
Andrea Stevenson Won and Jeremy Bailenson
Extending the Computers as Theatre Metaphor: From Presence in the Theatre to Telepresence
Maeva Veerapen
Virtual Presence Technology in Separation and Divorce
Richard Wolman and Richard Pomerance
Executive Interviews:
In the executive interviews below, ISPR President Matthew Lombard discusses important issues related to the Telepresence industry with thought-leaders and technology experts.
Howard S. Lichtman
President, Human Productivity Lab
Publisher: Telepresence Options
David Danto
Director of Emerging Technologies
Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance