stephen.dunne's blog

At the recent PRESENCE summer school in Dubrovnic we had a very interesting talk by Jeremy Bailenson, director of of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab which threw up some very powerful ideas on presence and interaction and how these can be manipulated in VR. This is interesting in itself but I think it highlights just how "hackable" we are.

Or more interestingly, how do you know you know? We've all had tip-of-the-tongue experiences where you know the name of the actor or group or whatever is there but you just can't get it out. But think about this for a moment, if you can't remember it how do you know that you know? This question has implications on how we access memory or how we search for particular information, what it is it about the process that provides "clues" to the presence or not of the information we are searching for?