TY - JOUR
AU - Heeter, Carrie
AB -  forum Short Papers Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence Introduction What do you feel when you enter a virtual world? What creates the experience of presence? What factors contribute to making you feel like you are there1? This paper offers a subjective explanation of presence in which the yardstick to measure presence is applied not to assessing how closely a virtual world mimics real world sensations, but instead to analyzing the kinds of evidence a virtual experience provides to participants that help convince them they are there. Sensory realism is subsumed within this broader perspective, as one of the means that contributes to the experience of presence. The effectiveness of the illusion of presence created by a virtual world can be partially assessed by studying visitors to virtual worlds' subjective experience of how much they feel like they are there and what makes them feel that way. This goes beyond traditional objective concerns such as comparing output device characteristics to data on what the average human eye can perceive. exist. It may be enhanced if the virtual environment itself seems to acknowledge your existence. As a framework to focus discussion, three dimensions of the subjective experience of 
TI - Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence
JF - Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
DO - 10.1162/pres.1992.1.2.262
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mit-press/being-there-the-subjective-experience-of-presence-5UN2ixRpY6
SP - 262
EP - 271
VL - 1
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -