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Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire

Slater, Mel·1999·Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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ly for all of these types of things metrics can be established which are descriptions of the system, and not descriptions of people's responses to the system. Witmer and Singer, however, define immersion as the person's response to the VE system. This difference in terminology is unfortunate, but not a matter of any great concern. In order to Measuring Presence 2 avoid further confusion I will use the term `system immersion' to denote my meaning of the word, and `immersive response' to denote W&S's meaning. On a second reading of their paper, I realised that this terminological difference was a sign of a very profound difference in methodology regarding the elicitation of presence. The purpose of this note is to explain why I would never use the W&S questionnaire for studying presence - even though I am sure that in itself it can lead to useful insights about the nature of VE experience. About the meaning of presence itself, I find W&S's var

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Authors
Slater, M.
Affiliations
University College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Slater, Mel
Venue
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Published
1999-10
Volume
8
Issue
5
Pages
560-565
ISSN
1054-7460 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2178182204
Cited by
855
References
15
Citations by year
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FWCI
17.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Flow Experience in Various Fields
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
Keywords
presence, presence measurement, virtual reality, terminology

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