According to him reality is that what the person perceives it to be. In other words, each of us creates his own reality. To be able to do this, our minds can produce or remove cognitive distortions. Carrie Heeter Carrie Heeter works for Michigan State University. You feel that you are there because everything responds as in the normal world.
Social presence is stimulated by the fact that other people or beings are in the virtual world.
With environmental presence it is meant that the modeled environment is aware of the user, i.e. doors open in front of the user. They claim that telepresence will increase when the operator can identify his own body with the slave robot. This can be achieved by a high correlation between the movements of the operator, sensed by the operator via internal kinesthetic senses, and the actions of the slave robot, sensed via the sensors of the robot. Sensory factors that improve telepresence are a high resolution display and a large field of view. Gary Fontaine Gary Fontaine works for the Department of Communication at the University of Hawaii.