P‐15: Presence as an Experiential Metric for 3‐D Display Evaluation
Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Don G. Bouwhuis, Jonathan Freeman, Huib de Ridder · SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers · 2002
Abstract In this paper, we argue that the experience of presence, i.e. the sense of “being there” in a mediated environment, provides us with a useful criterion to assess the global experiential impact of immersive and perceptually realistic display and communication media in general, and 3‐D displays in particular. Measuring presence in a reliable, valid and robust manner is a considerable challenge to media research and methodology development. We present an experiment in which we attempt to measure presence both through subjective ratings, and through measuring postural responses, i.e. automatic postural adjustments in response to moving video which are hypothesized to corroborate subjective presence ratings.