Presence and distal attribution: phenomenology, determinants, and assessment

Jack M. Loomis

doi:10.1117/12.136005

27 August 1992 Presence and distal attribution: phenomenology, determinants, and assessment

Jack M. Loomis

Proceedings Volume 1666, Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display III; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.136005
Event: SPIE/IS&T 1992 Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1992, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Users of virtual and teleoperator display systems are said to experience "being in" the simulated or remote environment; this experiential state is commonly referred to as "presence" or "telepresence". This article identifies another experiential state, "distal attribution", in which the user experiences "being in touch with" the simulated or remote environment while fully cognizant of being in the real environment in which the display is situated. The focus of the article is on the factors or conditions that promote presence and distal attribution and with empirical methods that might be used to assess the two. Out of the author's conviction that a proper understanding of these states will derive only from explicit consideration of the nature of ordinary perceptual experience, the article begins with some important phenomenological facts.

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Jack M. Loomis "Presence and distal attribution: phenomenology, determinants, and assessment", Proc. SPIE 1666, Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display III, (27 August 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.136005

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