Highlights key research currently being undertaken within the field of telepresence providing
the most detailed account of the field to date advancing our understanding of a fundamental
property of all media - the illusion of presence the sense of being there inside a virtual
environment with actual or virtual others. This collection has been put together by leading
international scholars from America Europe and Asia. Together they describe the
state-of-the-art in presence theory research and technology design for an advanced academic
audience. Immersed in Media provides research that can help designers optimize presence for
users of advanced media technologies such as virtual and augmented reality collaborative
social media robotics and artificial intelligence and lead us to better understand human
cognition emotion and behaviour.
