Presence in Shared Virtual Environments and Virtual Togetherness
N. I. Durlach, Mel Slater · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality · 2000
This Forum article discusses the relationships among people, their avatars, and their virtual environment workstations in a shared virtual environment. It introduces the notion of togetherness, the sense of people being together in a shared space, which is the counterpart for shared VEs to the presence of an individual in a VE. The role of tactual communication is emphasized as being fundamental to togetherness.