Welcome to the Presence Community website!
How do we create the experience we call reality? How are rapidly evolving interaction technologies changing it? Presence is a field studying the science, technology and social impact of digitally mediated interaction. It consists of research strands studying how to produce “real”-feeling experiences and the impact of associated technologies on social dynamics. Presence is intensely interdisciplinary, requiring collaboration in fields as diverse as Human and social cognition, human-machine interaction and machine cognition.
Peach is three year Coordination Action on Presence (ending May 2009) funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Starlab under the Future Emerging Technologies (FET) - Information Society Technology (IST) program nursery of novel and emerging scientific ideas. Our main objective is to stimulate, structure and support the interdisciplinary Presence research community and produce visions and roadmaps for the field.
By becoming a community member you can access several services, get funding from the Peach Basket and contribute to content. Membership is free. We encourage you to visit also ISPR's site.
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Peach Results - Your Feedback Wanted!
Wed, 05/13/2009 - 10:38 — cristina.martinThe Peach team has been working hard during the last three years. Thanks to this effort and the intense collaboration and support from community members, the project has produced a number of interesting outputs. Do you want to know about these conclusions? Please read them and share your thoughts by posting your comments. We have tried hard to make the following documents rich, representative, interesting, though-provoking and synthetic:
Peach books now online
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 17:50 — cristina.martin
THE Peach BOOKS
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PRESENCE FOR EVERYONE (PDF) |
FET PRESENCE VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE!
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 15:09 — cristina.martinScience Fair and 3rd WinG consultation events
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 17:45 — giulio.ruffini
Dear all,
The Science Fair and 3rd WinG consultation events took place in Edinburgh April 15-16 2009. We enjoyed a very interesting show from Stelarc followed by a very interesting Panel Session on body augmentation and Presence.
The 3rd and last WinG consultation event also took place, and provided very interesting inputs to all Peach activities. We will share them with you during the following weeks, together with the final Peach roadmap.
New: IEEE Transactions on Haptics (with Toc)
Sun, 03/22/2009 - 03:14 — giulio.ruffini
A new Presence-related journal has been created: IEEE Transactions on Haptics. This is excellent news, as such a medium will cater to a significant part of the community focused around a key aspect (sense) of presence technologies. To learn more, visit the journal website.
RAVE09 Final program on line!
Mon, 03/02/2009 - 13:23 — cristina.martinRAVE09 final program is available at http://rave09.peachbit.org
Science Fair and Industry Event application form for travel support !
Mon, 03/02/2009 - 13:16 — cristina.martinIn collaboration with the Edinburgh Science Festival Peach (local organizer Napier University) is organizing the Peach Science Fair and the third Peach Working Groups (WinGs) consultation meeting
Peach editing the FET Presence Video
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:34 — cristina.martin
Peach is gathering video material to make the first Future Emerging Technologies Presence Video. If you have video material (with or without audio) that you consider would be excellent input to such a video please do not hesitate contacting cristina.matin @ starlab.es as soon as possible.
14th Annual International CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14)
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 11:32 — cristina.martinThe 14th Annual International CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14) brings together researchers, clinicians, policy makers and funding agencies to share and discuss advancements in the growing disciplines of CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology.
RAVE'09 Abstract submission deadline + Early Registration
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 18:54 — cristina.martin
The RAVE09 Abstract Submission has been extended to 30th January 2009! You can still contribute!Also be aware that early registration deadline is 4th February 2009.
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