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Presence Research
Proactive Initiative in the 5th Framework Programme (1998-2002)
- Brochure presenting the initiative (PDF)
- Presence Research Working Group: Vision document (PDF)
PRESENCE is a proactive initiative of Future and Emerging Technologies, the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the EU. It is an opportunity for European researchers and institutions to combine the best expertise and skills from diverse disciplines in a highly challenging and promising new domain.
What is the initiative about?
- Download full document (PDF)
- Objective:
- To develop novel media that convey the sense of "being there". A theory of presence, emerging through interdisciplinary research that explores the cognitive and affective roots of sensory perception is expected to give rise to the design of innovative systems that offer "richer" experiences than any current media and communication technologies.
- Reaching the objectives of the presence initiative, requires systematic and interdisciplinary scientific investigations to discover what are the salient parameters and clues that contribute to the experience of presence when human beings participate in a mediated environment. Such an experience can be demonstrated by interactive systems that allow humans to escape the boundaries of space and time for such purposes as communicating, learning, entertainment, commerce, and remote actions.
- What is presence?
- Presence, the sense of "being there", is the experience of projecting one's mind through media to other places, people and designed environments. Appropriate presence technologies combine to create an illusion of " non-mediation" - the closest possible approximation to a sense of physical presence, when physical presence there may be none.
- The initiative is timely because of two developments: On the one hand, recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience make it possible to acquire a better understanding of the human aspects of presence. On the other hand, the breakthroughs at the level of the enabling technologies such as broadband access, computing power and displays make it increasingly possible to build systems based on this understanding.
Workshops - Related events
- January 25th 2000
- FET Brainstorming meeting: Telecommunications & Networked Virtual Presence
- March 21st 2000
- FET Brainstorming meeting: Sound & Vision: Active Perception
- March 29th 2000
- FET Brainstorming meeting: Sound & Vision: Presence Research
- Terms of reference (PDF) - Meeting Reports (PDF)
- 1st June 2001
- Starting date of Presence Working Group (proj. number IST-2000-31014)
- 8-9 June 2001
- Presence WG Meeting, hosted by Goldsmith College, London UK
- 2 August 2001
- International Conference on Auditory Display, Helsinki (SF)
- Sound Perception & Modeling led by FET Project
- 9-10 October 2001
- International Conference "Virtually There: Understanding Presence and the Engineering of Experience"
- TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Report (PDF)
- 11 October 2001
- Meeting of the Presence Research Working Group (by invitation only)
- Technical University of Eindhoven (NL)
- 16 November 2001
- Publication of the Call for Proposals on Presence Research
- 4 December 2001
- Dusseldorf (D) IST 2001 Conference
- Session on "Reality & Our Sense of Presence"
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- 10 January 2002
- Brussels Presence Info Day
- 15 April 2002
- Tentative date for the Presence Research Evaluation, Brussels
- Summer 2002
- Joint negotiation of retained proposals
- 1 September 2002
- Possible startdate for PRESENCE projects
Brussels Info Day: 10 January 2002
Presentations
The programme included an overview of the FET activities, an introduction to the initiative and talks by keynote speakers presenting the key challenges and visions.
This event also served as a place to meet with potential partners for submission of a research proposal. Participants were given the opportunity to present (in one slide) a brief overview of their interests and the central idea of the project they wish to propose.
There was also time for questions and for discussions with EC staff.
- Overview and scope of the proactive initiative on "Presence Research"
- Loretta Anania (European Commission)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Video presention (Zipped WMF)
- Presentation of the conclusions of the Working Group on Presence Research
- Frank Biocca (Director, Meida Interface and Network Design Lab, Eindhoven Univ., NL)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Different visions on Presence:
- Leslie Smith (Computing Science and Mathematics Department Head, University of Sterling, Scotland)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Video presention (Zipped WMF)
- Dr. Annie Luciani (Director, ICA Lab, IMAG, Grenoble, France)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Video presention (Zipped WMF)
- Michael Kubovy and Dave Van Valkenburg (Department of Psychology, University of VIrginia, Chalottesville, USA)
- Presentation (PDF)
Contacts
For further information please feel free to contact:
- David Guedj
Tel.: +32-2-29.55121 - Fabrizio Sestini
Tel.: +32-2-29.95260
Fax: +32-2-29.68.397