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Subjective-situational study of presence

Nataly Averbukh

pp. 131-138

The paper is devoted to the description of the interview approach to reveal presence state and its types such as environmental, social and personal presence. The questions of the interview is described and analyzed in detail. The questions were formulated in view of the subject's behavior and the reactions during tests. Also the answers of the test subjects are analyzed from a perspective of sense of presence revealing.  The interview method proved its efficiency. This method allowed to identify in practice types of presence being under researching. In addition, it has enabled a better understanding of the dynamics of the perception changes in the case of presence. The flexibility of this method allows to adjust it under specific virtual environment, and to clarify all key aspects to understand presence.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07458-0_13

Full citation:

Averbukh, N. (2014)., Subjective-situational study of presence, in R. Shumaker & S. Lackey (eds.), Virtual, augmented and mixed reality. designing and developing virtual and augmented environments, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 131-138.

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