SPATIAL TELEPRESENCE

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The definitions under this heading explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is only external (outside the body); and there is an inaccurate perceptioon that technology is not involved in the experience when it is; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to the physical environment.

Sample defintion(s):

Witmer and Singer (1998):
"[T]he subjective experience of being in one place or environment, even when one is physically situated in another" (p. 225)

Biocca, Harms, and Burgoon (2003):
“[T]elepresence (also known as spatial presence or physical presence) [is] the phenomenal sense of ‘being there’ including automatic responses to spatial cues and the mental models of mediated spaces that create the illusion of place” (p. 459).

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