Resources, Journals & Newsgroups
 
Online Resources
ISPR - International Society for Presence Research
- Created in January 2002 to support the ongoing Presence Workshop series and provide information on the presence concept.
The
Presence Workshops
give a good and up-to-date overview of research activities in the area of presence. All workshops have an online programme with links to papers (although some pages may be unavailable).
PRESENCE 2002 - Fifth Annual International Workshop on Presence
PRESENCE 2001 - 4th International Workshop on Presence
PRESENCE 2000 - 3rd International Workshop on Presence
2nd International Workshop on Presence
Workshop on Presence in Shared Virtual Environments
FREE Book on Presence:
BEING THERE: CONCEPTS, EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF USER PRESENCE IN SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS
, Amsterdam: IOS Press.
VREFresh
- Free electronic newsletter for the Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive three-dimensional (i3D) systems community
VIS-SIM.org
- Visual Simulation Resource
TNO-FEL's
VR link list
Knowledge Base Project (HITLab)
VR resources
VR Sites listing
ACTS Common European Newsletter:
Special Issue on Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments
Special Issue of JCMC:
Designing Presence in Virtual Environments
Presence Bibliography
by Toni Emerson, Anthony Steed and Mark Billinghurst (1999)
Media Research Resources
Journals & Newsletters
CyberPsychology and Behavior
(sample issue available online)
Haptics-e
(online journal)
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Journal of Communication
(abstracts available online)
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
(online journal)
Media Psychology
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
(abstracts and sample papers available online)
Presence-Connect
: The online companion to the Presence journal
Telemedicine Today
(articles from past issues available online)
The Journal of Virtual Environments
(online journal)
Virtualnomics
(online newsletter of the HFES)
VR News
(sample issue available online)
VRS Journal
(abstracts from back issues available online)
Newsgroups
3DUI
- 3D User Interfaces mailing list and website (Japan)
ACM SigVR
(USA)
Cavernus
- CAVE Research Network Users Society (USA)
ed-3d
- list for educators of 3D and VR technologies (UK)
Haptics-L
- mailing list for the international haptics community (CAN)
HFES VE-TG
(CAN)
LVRG
- London VR Group (UK)
Presence-L
- discussion list of the presence community (USA)
Sci.virtual-worlds
(USA)
UK VR Forum
- initiative of UK DTI to stimulate business uptake of VR
UK-VRSIG
(UK)
VRPSYCH-L
- VR and psychology list (USA)