Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Design for experience
Design for presence needs to include the complex notion of design for experience. We make choices…
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Meta-design for choices and trade-offs
Presence research is a science of trade-offs (IJsselsteijn 2004). We, as individuals make these…
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Main issues of controversy on the notion of Presence as a value for design
A first issue of controversy is that presence is a fuzzy concept. Most measurements in the ‘being
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Co-presence, social presence and witnessed presence
Individual performance of presence is affected and inspired by other people’s presence. In 1963…
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The strive for survival and well-being
Having identified that the sense of ‘being-here’ and the sense of ‘being-there’ are merging, the…
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Merging realities
In communication trajectories we incorporate on- and offline interaction into one experience over…
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Being Here
In the 1990s the ‘being-here’ perspective on presence design is initially overshadowed by the many…
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Being there
To create digital technologies for mediating presence, psychologists and computer scientists have…
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Conclusions
This chapter focuses on the design of presence in merging realities as approached in the social and…
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Open issues and further work
Little is known about the embodiment of virtual and mediated experiences. Looking at data of users…
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Introduction
Presence is a word that appears in many social, political, religious and economic contexts and…
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Evaluation of the ATHENS Biomimicry design course
The last two days of the course were dedicated to the final presentation. Each repetition, the…
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Smart insulation using pinecones
Yes! even something as simple as a pinecone can inspire you
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Bromelia and spider web inspired water collection system.
Water is everywhere if you know how to obtain it efficiently
