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Conversations on Presence - Giulio Ruffini

Submitted by leo.ruffini on May 28, 2008 - 14:53.

Giulio Ruffini is the coordinator of Peach as well as  the director of Starlab, a company transforming science into technologies with a profound and positive impact on society. He is also the project coordinator of Peach, a coordination action of the European Commission supporting Presence research.

Besides his work in PEACH community, he is currently involved in various Space and Neuroscience research projects, including the recently completed Sensation (advanced sensor development for attention, stress vigilance, and sleep/wakefulness monitoring) and HIVE (Hyper Interaction Viability Experiments).

 Interview carried out by Leo Ruffini of Starlab with Elem3ntal Creative Lab.

Conversations on Presence - David Benyon

Submitted by leo.ruffini on May 16, 2008 - 08:20.

David Benyon is professor of Human Computer Systems in Napier University and has been publishing on Human Computer interaction since 1.984.

He is currently involved in Companions, a project that aims to develop a virtual conversational 'Companion', an agent or 'presence' that stays with the user for long periods of time, developing a relationship and 'knowing' its owners preferences and wishes.

 Interview carried out by Leo Ruffini of Starlab with Elem3ntal Creative Lab.

"If you respond as if it were real, then it is Presence"- Interview with Mel Slater

Submitted by leo.ruffini on April 10, 2008 - 08:31.
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Mel Slater is Professor of Virtual Environments at the Department of Computer Science of the University College London as well as ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. His major research interest is the question of what makes virtual reality work, how is it possible to build virtual environments such that people respond realistically to events within them? What scientific explanations are there of this phenomenon?

Conversations on Presence - Paul Verschure

Submitted by leo.ruffini on March 13, 2008 - 16:23.

Paul Verschure is Ma. and PhD in psychology. His scientific aim is to find a unified theory of mind, brain and body through the use of synthetic methods and to apply such a theory to the development of novel cognitive technologies.

Presence is a scientific and technological field focusing on understanding and controlling  the experience of being someone, somewhere, with somebody.  It aims to  produce real-feeling experiences through sensorial augmentation or replacement  with digital media.   It is also intensely interdisciplinary:  advances are needed in human cognition, human-machine interaction, and machine intelligence.

A simple measure of success in Presence is this: If it feels real then it is Presence.

Interview carried out by Leo Ruffini of Starlab with Elem3ntal Creative Lab.

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