Conversations on Presence. Olaf Blanke.
Presence is a scientific and technological field focusing on understanding and controlling the experience of being someone, somewhere, with somebody. It aims to produce real-feeling experiences through sensorial augmentation or replacement with digital media. It is also intensely interdisciplinary: advances are needed in human cognition, human-machine interaction and machine intelligence. A simple measure of success in Presence is this: If it feels real then it is Presence.
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Olaf Blanke is Medical Doctor by training and PhD in Neurophysiology. Currently he works as assistant professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne as well as Neurological Consultant at the University Hospital of Geneva. He leads a multidisciplinary team of biologists, psychologists, medical doctors, physicists, engineers and computer scientists who tries to understand how the brain represents the own body. |
Interviews carried out by Leo Ruffini of Starlab with Elem3ntal Creative Lab.
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