Peach - Presence Research in Action

One early but important conclusion collected by Peach is that there is a clear need for unification and focus of efforts.  A challenging and visionary project centered on the main questions and goals of Presence Science and Technology can provide an efficient framework for focus and establish a consensus on the key questions and objectives to be addressed.

Such a visionary project could bring together several communities working today in the field, and should have a time scale of around 5 to 10 years, with, e.g., 3-year milestones, while opening up a large set of powerful applications.
There are some basic considerations in the definition of such a Grand Challenge.   
Such a project should be at core objective of Presence:  producing measurably "real" experiences through sensorial replacement and interaction with "bits". Should be ambitious, hard, medium to long term (~10 year horizon with 3 year milestones say). It should engage the needed communities (presumably in Human Cognition, Human-Machine Interaction) and Machine Cognition around a focal problem. Finally, should a project should lead to major advancement in Presence Theory, Experiment and Technology, and result in major positive social impact.

WinG2 is the Presence Interdisciplinary Actions working group, which main contribution is to analyze the different disciplines related to Presence and propose actions to support interdisciplinary work

WinG4 is the Working Group responsible for discussing social, ethical and legal issues of Presence research. In addition, this working aims also to provide recommendations for improving Market interaction

WinG6 aims to define objectives and communication strategies to reach the public. The results from the discussions of this working group will have a strong impact on keho contents.

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