How Can We Determine if the Sense of Presence Affects Task Performance?

  • Authors:
  • Robert B. Welch

  • Affiliations:
  • NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, rwelch@mail.arc.nasa.gov

  • Venue:
  • Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The question of whether the sense of presence in virtual environments (or telepresence with respect to teleoperator systems) is causally related to task performance remains unanswered because the appropriate studies have yet to be carried out. In this brief report, the author describes a strategy for resolving this issue and the results of a pilot study in which this strategy was implemented.