PRESENCE 2005FINAL PROGRAMME

The 8th International Workshop on Presence21-23rd September, 2005, UCL

International Society for Presence Research The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence PRESENCE 2005 21-23rd September, 2005 University College London International Programme Chair Mel Slater International Programme Committee Chair International Society for Presence Research: Matthew Lombard, Temple University, USA Local Committee Ms JJ Giwa, Department of Computer Science, University College London (Administration) Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy and Doron Friedman, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK (Demonstrations) Daniela Romano, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK (Posters) International Programme Committee Mariano Alcaniz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Carlo Alberto, Avizzano, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy Jeremy N. Bailenson, Stanford University, USA Rosa Baños, University of Valencia, Spain Woody Barfield, Independent Researcher, North Carolina, USA Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cristina Botella Arbona, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Frank Biocca, M.I.N.D. Lab, Michigan State University, USA Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech, USA Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Cleveland State University USA Martin Buss, Technische Universitaet Muenchen Germany Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK Jonathan Freeman, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Doron Friedman, University College London, UK Luciano Gamberini, University of Padua, Italy Maia Garau, University College London, UK Marco Gillies, University College London, UK Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands Ilona Heldal, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Roy Kalawsky, Loughborough University, UK Rita Lauria, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA Jane Lessiter, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Matthew Lombard, Temple University, USA Celine Loscos, University College London, UK Katerina Mania, University of Sussex, UK Giorgio Metta, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy Christa Neuper, University of Graz, Austria Miriam Reiner, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Albert Skip Rizzo, University of Southern California, USA Daniela Romano, University of Sheffield, UK Roy Ruddle, University of Leeds, UK Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Thomas Schubert, University of Jena, Germany Melissa E. Selverian, Temple University, USA Mel Slater, University College London, UK Anna Spagnolli, University of Padua, Italy Anthony Steed, University College London, UK Aleksander Väljamäe, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Walter Van de Velde, European Commission, EU Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Switzerland Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, University College London, UK Suzanne J. Weghorst, University of Washington, USA Mary Whitton, University of North Carolina, USA

TIMETABLE DAY 1: Wednesday 21st September.......................................................................................... 4

09.30-10.00- Introductory Session ......................................................................................... 4 10.00-11.00 - Keynote Talk 1 ................................................................................................ 4 11.00-11.30 - BREAK............................................................................................................ 4 11.30-12.45 – Session 1: Interacting with a Brain ................................................................. 5 12.45-13.45 – LUNCH.......................................................................................................... 5 13.45-15.45 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS............................................. 5 15.45-17.00 - Session 2: Body, Space and Motion ................................................................ 6 17.00-17.30 - BREAK............................................................................................................ 6 17.30-19.00 - Session 3: Interaction with Avatars ................................................................. 7 19.00 – 21.00 - The i2 Media Reception................................................................................ 7

DAY 2: Thursday 22nd September............................................................................................ 8 09.00-10.00 - Keynote Talk 2 ................................................................................................ 8 10.00-11.00 - Session 4: Meta Presence ................................................................................ 8 11.00-11.30 - BREAK............................................................................................................ 8 11.30-13.00 - Session 5: Individual and Cultural Effects ...................................................... 9 13.00-14.00 - LUNCH ........................................................................................................... 9 14.00-15.00 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS............................................. 9 15.00-17.00 - Session 6: Talking Faces and Social Collaboration....................................... 10 17.00-17.30 - BREAK......................................................................................................... 10 17.30-19.00 - Session 7: Presence Theory and Experimentation......................................... 11 19.30 - Conference Dinner ................................................................................................... 11

DAY 3: Friday 23rd September ............................................................................................... 12 09.00-10.00 - Keynote Talk 3 .............................................................................................. 12 10.00-11.30 - Session 8: Interactivity and Usability - Theory and Practice ........................ 12 11.30-12.00 - BREAK.......................................................................................................... 12 12.00-13.30 - Session 9: Multimodal Presence.................................................................... 13 13.30-14.30 - LUNCH ......................................................................................................... 13 13.30-14.30 - ISPR Board Meeting..................................................................................... 13 14.30-15.00 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS........................................... 13 15.00-16.30 - Session 10: Presence: Past, Present, and Future (The OMNIPRES Project) 14 16.30 – 17.00 - BREAK....................................................................................................... 14 17.00-18.00 - Session 11: Therapy....................................................................................... 14 18.00-19.00 - Session 12: Gaming and Connected Presence............................................... 15 19.00-19.15 - Conference Close........................................................................................... 15

Timetable

DAY 1: Wednesday 21st September 08.30-09.30 Registration

09.30-10.00- Introductory Session 09.30-09.40 Welcome to the Conference

Mel Slater, Conference Chair Matthew Lombard, President, ISPR

09.40-09.50 Welcome to University College London

Anthony Finkelstein, Head of Department of Computer Science, UCL 09.50-10.00 Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environments (Presence II), IST

Future Emerging Technologies Walter Van De Velde, European Commission

10.00-11.00 - Keynote Talk 1

Chair: Gert Pfurtscheller, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology, Austria 10.00-11.00 Experimenting with Ada: Towards Collective Mixed-reality Environments

Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University & Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuric

11.00-11.30 - BREAK

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11.30-12.45 – Session 1: Interacting with a Brain

Chair: Edwin Blake, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa 11.30-12.00 An Investigation of Collective Human Interaction with a Large-scale, Mixed-

reality Space Kynan Eng1, Matti Mintz2, and Paul F.M.J. Verschure1 1 Institute of Neuroinformatics, University/ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

12.00-12.30 Walking from Thoughts: Not the Muscles are Crucial, But the Brain Waves!

Robert Leeb1, Claudia Keinrath1, Doron Friedman2, Christoph Guger3, Christa Neuper1,4, Maia Garau2, Angus Antley2, Anthony Steed2, Mel Slater2 and Gert Pfurtscheller1,5 1 Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology, Austria 2 Department of Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom 3 g.tec - Guger Technologies OEG, Austria 4 Department of Psychology, University of Graz, , Austria 5 Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut für medizinische Informatik und Neuroinformatik, Graz University of Technology, Austria

12.30-12.45 Reliving VE Day with Schemata Activation

Phil Turner1, Susan Turner1, and Dimitrios Tzovaras2 1 School of Computing, Napier University, UK 2 Informatics and Telematics Institiute, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

12.45-13.45 – LUNCH

13.45-15.45 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS

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15.45-17.00 - Session 2: Body, Space and Motion

Chair: Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics University/ETH Zürich 15.45-16.15 Is this My Hand I see before me? The Rubber Hand Illusion in Reality, Virtual

Reality and Mixed Reality Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Yvonne de Kort, and Antal Haans Human-Technology Interaction Group, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

16.15-16.30 Influence of Auditory Cues on the Visually Induced Self-Motion Illusion

(Circular Vection) in Virtual Reality Bernhard Riecke, Jörg Schulte-Pelkum, Franck Caniard, & Heinrich H.Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

16.30-17.00 Neural Processing of Spatial Information: What we know about place cells

and what they can tell us about presence Jorge Brotons1, Shane O'Mara2 and Mavi Sanchez-Vives1 1 Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernandez-CSIC, Spain 2 Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

17.00-17.30 - BREAK

Presencia Project: Brain-Computer Interface

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17.30-19.00 - Session 3: Interaction with Avatars

Chair: Doron Friedman, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK 17.30-18.00 The Effect of Behavioral Realism and Form Realism of Real-Time Avatar

Faces on Verbal Disclosure, Nonverbal Disclosure, Emotion Recognition, and Copresence in Dyadic Interaction Jeremy N. Bailenson1, Nick Yee1, Dan Merget2, and Ralph Schroeder3 1 Department of Communication, Stanford University, USA 2 Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA 3 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK

18.00-18.30 BASIC: A Believable, Adaptable, Socially Intelligent Character for Social

Presence Daniela Romano, Gary Sheppard, James Hall, Adam Miller, Zhinan Ma Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

18.30-18.45 Virtual Encounters. Creating Social Presence in Net-based Collaborations

Sabine Rüggenberg, Gary Bente, and Nicole C. Krämer Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany

18.45-19.00 Non-verbal Communication for Correlational Characters

Marco Gillies and Mel Slater Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK

19.00 – 21.00 - The i2 Media Reception

Sponsorted by i2 media research Ltd http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/immediate/i2/

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DAY 2: Thursday 22nd September

09.00-10.00 - Keynote Talk 2

Chair: Matthew Lombard, Mass Media & Communication, Temple University, USA 09.00-10.00 Issues of Law and Ethics in the Design and Use of Virtual Environments

Woodrow Barfield, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

10.00-11.00 - Session 4: Meta Presence

Chair: Cristina Botella Arbona, Universitat Jaume I, Spain 10.00-10.30 Sharing and Analysing Presence Experiments Data

Doron Friedman1, Andrea Brogni1, Angus Antley1, Christoph Guger2 and Mel Slater1 1 Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK 2 g.tec - Guger Technologies OEG, Austria

10.30-10.45 The Big Picture: Gaining Perspective by Examining Patterns in the

(Tele)Presence Literature Matthew Lombard and Matthew T. Jones Mass Media & Communication, Temple University, USA

10.45-11.00 Are we Persuaded by Feeling “Part of the Action”? Exploring the Similarities

between the Transportation Imagery Model and Presence Cheryl Campanella Bracken Department of Communication, Cleveland State University, USA

11.00-11.30 - BREAK

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11.30-13.00 - Session 5: Individual and Cultural Effects

Chair: Frank Biocca, Telecommunications, Information Studies and Media Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, USA 11.30-12.00 Individual Differences in the Sense of Presence

Ivan Alsina Jurnet, Cristina Carvallo Beciu, and José Gutiérrez Maldonado Grupo de investigación sobre aplicaciones de la realidad virtual en Psicología clínica, University of Barcelona, Spain

12.00-12.30 The Impact of Personality Factors on the Experience of Spatial Presence

Ana Sacau1, Jari Laarni2, Niklas Ravaja2, and Tilo Hartmann3 1 University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal 2 Helsinki School of Economics, Finland 3 Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany

12.30-13.00 Culture Matters - A Study on Presence in an Interactive Movie

Jun Hu and Christoph Bartneck Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

13.00-14.00 - LUNCH

14.00-15.00 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS

From: A Virtual Playground for the Study of the Role of Interactivity in Virtual Learning

Environments, Maria Roussou and Mel Slater

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15.00-17.00 - Session 6: Talking Faces and Social Collaboration

Chair: Jonathan Freeman, Department of Psychology (i2 media research), Goldsmiths College, University of London 15.00-15.30 The Influence of Lip Animation on the Perception of Speech in Virtual

Environments Edwin Blake and Johan Verwey Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

15.30-16.00 Providing High Social Presence for Mobile Systems via an Unobtrusive Face

Capture System Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva1, Frank A. Biocca2, Chandan K. Reddy1, Jannick P. Rolland3, and George C. Stockman1 1 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University East Lansing, USA 2 Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University East Lansing, USA 3 School of Optics University of Central Florida Orlando, USA

16.00-16.30 A Study of Influential Factors on Effective Closely-Coupled Collaboration

based on single user perceptions Oliver Otto, David J. Roberts, and Robin Wolff The Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, UK

16.30-17.00 Social Presence in Two- and Three-dimensional Videoconferencing

Joerg Hauber1, Holger Regenbrecht2, Aimee Hills2, Andrew Cockburn1 and Mark Billinghurst1 1 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 2 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

17.00-17.30 - BREAK

From: Using Virtual Reality to Provide Nutritional Support to HIV+ Women, Brown et al.

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17.30-19.00 - Session 7: Presence Theory and Experimentation

Chair: Miriam Reiner, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Department of Education in Technology and Science Haifa, 32000, Israel 17.30-18.00 Agency and Presence: a Common Dependence on Subjectivity?

Gerardo Herrera1, Rita Jordan2 and Lucía Vera1 1 Autism & Learning Difficulties Group, Robotics Institute, University of Valencia, Spain 2 School of Education, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

18.00-18.30 When Presence and Emotion are Related and When They are Not

Jonathan Freeman1, Jane Lessiter1, Katherine Pugh1 and Ed Keogh2 1 Department of Psychology (i2 media research), Goldsmiths College, University of London 2 Department of Psychology, University of Bath

18.30-18.45 Schemata, Narrative and Presence

Dan Pinchbeck and Brett Stevens Department of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, UK

18.45-19.00 The Role of Content Preference on Thematic Priming in Virtual Presence

Ilda Ladeira2, David Nunez1 and Edwin Blake2 1 Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

19.30 - Conference Dinner

Imperial Chinese Restaurant 25a Lisle Street

London WC2H 7BA Tel: 020 7734 3388

After dinner speaker: Loretta Anania, European Commission

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DAY 3: Friday 23rd September

09.00-10.00 - Keynote Talk 3

Chair: Anthony Steed, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK 09.00-10.00 Presence for Sale: The Competitive Edge of Using VR

Carolina Cruz Niera Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

10.00-11.30 - Session 8: Interactivity and Usability - Theory and Practice

Chair: Anna Spagnolli, University of Padua, Italy 10.00-10.30 Towards a Model for a Virtual Reality Experience: The Virtual Subjectiveness

Narcís Parés and Roc Parés Experimentation on Interactive Communication Audiovisual Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

10.30-11.00 A Virtual Playground for the Study of the Role of Interactivity in Virtual

Learning Environments Maria Roussou and Mel Slater Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK

11.00-11.15 Analysis of Subject Behavior in a Virtual Reality User Study

Jurgen P. Schulze1, Andrew S. Forsberg1, and Mel Slater2 1 Department of Computer Science, Brown University, USA 2 Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK

11.15-11.30 Exploring the Relationships Between the Usability of a Medium and the Sense

of Spatial Presence Perceived by the User Andreas Nosper1, Katharina-Maria Behr1, Tilo Hartmann1 and Peter Vorderer2 1 Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany 2 Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles USA

11.30-12.00 - BREAK 12

12.00-13.30 - Session 9: Multimodal Presence

Chair: Mavi Sanchez-Vives, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernandez-CSIC, Spain 12.00-12.30 Multi-Modal Stimulation, Response Time and Presence

David Hecht1, Miriam Reiner1, and Gad Halevy2 1 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Department of Education in Technology and Science Haifa, 32000, Israel 2 The University of Haifa Haifa, 31905, Israel

12.30-13.00 A Comparison of the Effect that the Visual and Haptic Problems Associated

with Touching a Projection Augmented Model Have on Object-presence Emily Bennett and Brett Stevens Department of Information Systems and Computer Applications, University of Portsmouth, UK

13.00-13.15 Difficulties Using Passive Haptic Augmentation in the Interaction within a

Virtual Environment R. Viciana-Abad, A. Reyes-Lecuona, F.J. Cañadas-Quesada Department of Electronic Technology, University of Málaga, Spain

13.15-13.30 The Value of Reaction-Time Measures in Presence Research: Empirical

Findings and Future Perspectives Christoph Klimmt1, Tilo Hartmann1, Andre Gysbers1, and Peter Vorderer2 1 Department of Journalism & Communication Research, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany 2 Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

13.30-14.30 - LUNCH

13.30-14.30 - ISPR Board Meeting

14.30-15.00 - POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS

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15.00-16.30 - Session 10: Presence: Past, Present, and Future (The OMNIPRES Project)

Chair: Frank Biocca, Telecommunications, Information Studies and Media Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, USA Presence Past Wijnand IJsselsteijn Human-Technology Interaction Group, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Presence Present Jonathan Freeman Department of Psychology (i2 media research), Goldsmiths College, University of London Presence Future Frank Biocca, Telecommunications, Information Studies and Media Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, USA

16.30 – 17.00 - BREAK

17.00-18.00 - Session 11: Therapy

Chair: Daniela Romano, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK 17.00-17.30 Play Therapy Utilizing the Sony Eye Toy

Eva Petersson and Anthony Brooks Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark

17.30-17.45 An Augmented Reality System for the Treatment of Acrophobia

M. C. Juan1, D. Pérez1, D. Tomás1, B. Rey1, M. Alcañiz1, C. Botella2 and C. Baños3 1 MedICLab, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain 2 Departamento de Psicología Básica y Psicobiología (UJI), Spain 3 Universidad de Valencia, Spain

17.45-18.00 Using Virtual Reality to Provide Nutritional Support to HIV+ Women

Sarah Brown1, David Nunez2 and Edwin Blake1 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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18.00-19.00 - Session 12: Gaming and Connected Presence

Chair: Chery Campanella Bracken, Cleveland State University, USA 18.00-18.30 Spatial Presence and Emotions during Video Game Playing: Does it Matter

with Whom You Play? Niklas Ravaja1, Timo Saari1, Marko Turpeinen2 Jari Laarni1, Mikko Salminen1, and Matias Kivikangas1 1 M.I.N.D. Lab/CKIR, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland 2 Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

18.30-18.45 Learning, Experience and Cognitive Factors in the Presence Experiences of

Gamers: An Exploratory Relational Study David Nunez1 and Edwin Blake2 1 Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

18.45-19.00 Being There Together and the Future of Connected Presence

Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute, UK

19.00-19.15 - Conference Close

Front cover from Sharing and Analysing Presence Experiments Data, Friedman et al.

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