Ivan Seeking
Dec16-04, 02:43 AM
Andrea Brogni, Mel Slater and Anthony Steed
Department of Computer Science,
University College London,
UK
Email: a.brogni@cs.ucl.ac.uk
1. Introduction
The concept of ‘breaks in presence’ (BIPs) was introduced in Slater and Steed (2000). The idea was that rather than only use a post-experience questionnaire to assess presence, it could be assessed during the experience itself. The hypothesis was that during immersion in a VE [virtual experience] a participant simultaneously perceives two streams of sensory data – from the real world, and also from the virtual world. At any one moment these sense impressions would be the basis of a perceptual Gestalt, corresponding more or less to the world portrayed by the VE or to the real world in which the whole event was taking place. Sensory data corresponding to the nonfavoured interpretation may be ignored, or incorporated into the prevailing Gestalt. [continued]
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Slater/Papers/bipspres.pdf
Department of Computer Science,
University College London,
UK
Email: a.brogni@cs.ucl.ac.uk
1. Introduction
The concept of ‘breaks in presence’ (BIPs) was introduced in Slater and Steed (2000). The idea was that rather than only use a post-experience questionnaire to assess presence, it could be assessed during the experience itself. The hypothesis was that during immersion in a VE [virtual experience] a participant simultaneously perceives two streams of sensory data – from the real world, and also from the virtual world. At any one moment these sense impressions would be the basis of a perceptual Gestalt, corresponding more or less to the world portrayed by the VE or to the real world in which the whole event was taking place. Sensory data corresponding to the nonfavoured interpretation may be ignored, or incorporated into the prevailing Gestalt. [continued]
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Slater/Papers/bipspres.pdf