ENGAGEMENT TELEPRESENCE

Details:

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 psychological engagement.

Sample defintion(s):

Jacobson (2002):
“Presence is the experience of being engaged by the representations of a virtual world.”

Palmer (1995):
"[T]he degree to which users of a virtual environment feel involved with, absorbed in, and engrossed by stimuli from the virtual environment."