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

Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire FORUM Short Paper Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire Witmer and Singer recently published a questionnaire for eliciting presence in virtual environments together with a questionnaire for measuring a person’s immersive tendencies (Witmer & Singer, 1998). The authors mentioned that they did not agree with my notion of immersion: ‘‘Though the VE equipment is instrumental in enabling immersion, we do not agree with Slater’s view that immersion is an objective description of the VE technology.’’ On first reading, I was happy to take this as simply a difference of terminology, which is what it is. I had defined the term immersion to mean the extent to which the actual system delivers a surrounding environment, one which shuts out sensations from the real world, which accommodates many sensory modalities, has rich representational capability, and so on (described, for example, in Slater & Wilbur, 1997). These are obviously measurable aspects of a VE system. For example, given two VE systems—and other things being equal—if one allows the participants to turn their heads in any direction at all and still receive visual information only from within the VE, then this is called (in my definition) a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments MIT Press

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MIT Press
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© 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1054-7460
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10.1162/105474699566477
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FORUM Short Paper Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire Witmer and Singer recently published a questionnaire for eliciting presence in virtual environments together with a questionnaire for measuring a person’s immersive tendencies (Witmer & Singer, 1998). The authors mentioned that they did not agree with my notion of immersion: ‘‘Though the VE equipment is instrumental in enabling immersion, we do not agree with Slater’s view that immersion is an objective description of the VE technology.’’ On first reading, I was happy to take this as simply a difference of terminology, which is what it is. I had defined the term immersion to mean the extent to which the actual system delivers a surrounding environment, one which shuts out sensations from the real world, which accommodates many sensory modalities, has rich representational capability, and so on (described, for example, in Slater & Wilbur, 1997). These are obviously measurable aspects of a VE system. For example, given two VE systems—and other things being equal—if one allows the participants to turn their heads in any direction at all and still receive visual information only from within the VE, then this is called (in my definition) a

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Published: Oct 1, 1999

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