Conversations on Presence. David Benyon.
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.
| David Benyon is professor of Human Computer Systems in Napier University and has been publishing on Human Computer interaction since 1.984.
He is currently involved in Companions, a project that aims to develop a virtual conversational 'Companion', an agent or 'presence' that stays with the user for long periods of time, developing a relationship and 'knowing' its owners preferences and wishes. |
Interviews carried out by Leo Ruffini of Starlab with Elem3ntal Creative Lab.
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