{"id":68,"date":"2013-01-21T06:32:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T06:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-01-23T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:24:51","slug":"week-1-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/2013\/01\/21\/week-1-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For class 1\/29\/13<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Post Comments by<\/strong> 11:59 pm on 1\/27\/13<\/p>\n<p><strong>For class 1\/29\/13<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Post Comments by<\/strong>\u00a011:59 pm on 1\/27\/13<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Note on Presence Terminology<\/strong><br \/>\nMel Slater<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/publicationslist.org\/data\/melslater\/ref-201\/a%20note%20on%20presence%20terminology.pdf\">http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/publicationslist.org\/data\/melslater\/ref-201\/a%20note%20on%20presence%20terminology.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive<br \/>\nvirtual environments<\/strong><br \/>\nMel Slater<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/364\/1535\/3549.full.pdf+html\">http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/364\/1535\/3549.full.pdf+html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please print out these articles and bring them with you to class on Tuesday for discussion.\u00a0 Alternatively, you can bring digital version of the reading with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with the separation of presence and immersion?\u00a0 Does this differentiation make sense to you?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Slater&#8217;s argument about presence in simulations of the Non-Real? \u00a0Do you agree that Presence is possible in impossible environments?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, select a topic that you find interesting, dubious, confusing or curious and explain why.\u00a0 Write at least a paragraph of explanation and add citations if warranted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Slater&#8217;s breakdown between PI and Psi? \u00a0Do you agree with Slater that these concepts are orthogonal? Explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Slater writes &#8220;The\u00a0illusion [PI], given the right physical set-up and the appropriate SCs in a particular modality, is automatic\u2014it\u00a0can coexist with different (but not contradictory)\u00a0sensations in another modality.&#8221; \u00a0Do you agree (say why)?<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree that breaks in Psi are harder to overcome than breaks in PI? \u00a0Explain.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, select a topic that you find interesting, dubious, confusing or curious and explain why.\u00a0 Write at least a paragraph of explanation and add citations if warranted.<\/p>\n<p>Option question (something we will talk about in class) The paper references the Milgram Experiment (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milgram_experiment). \u00a0How do you feel about this experiment being run in Virtual Reality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For class 1\/29\/13 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 1\/27\/13 For class 1\/29\/13 Post Comments by\u00a011:59 pm on 1\/27\/13 A Note on Presence Terminology Mel Slater http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/publicationslist.org\/data\/melslater\/ref-201\/a%20note%20on%20presence%20terminology.pdf Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/2013\/01\/21\/week-1-readings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}