Being in a Virtual World: Presence, Environment, Salience, Sound

Mads Walther-Hansen; Mark Grimshaw

doi:10.1145/2986416.2986425

Being in a Virtual World: Presence, Environment, Salience, Sound

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Abstract

We present a theoretical framework by which virtual world sound designers may work towards the attainment of presence. Drawing on the study of cognitive metaphors and the view that sound is an emergent perception we offer an account of the environment as a salient and dynamic construct that functions as a synecdoche for the nonself. Separating environment from world, we discuss the role of sound in the forming of the environment and argue that it is this environment that establishes the means for presence because it is the process behind the construction of the environment that individuates self from nonself and such differentiation is a defining feature of the concept of presence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Audio Mostly Conference : A Conference on Interaction With Sound
Number of pages	8
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2016
Pages	77-84
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4822-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2986416.2986425
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	11th Audio Mostly Conference - Norrköping, Sweden Duration: 4 Oct 2016 → 6 Oct 2016 Conference number: 11 http://audiomostly.com/

Conference

Conference	11th Audio Mostly Conference
Number	11
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Norrköping
Period	04/10/2016 → 06/10/2016
Internet address	http://audiomostly.com/

Keywords

Presence
Virtual worlds
Crossmodality
Sound
Metaphor
Embodiment
Environment

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10.1145/2986416.2986425

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11th Audio Mostly Conference
Mads Walther-Hansen (Speaker)
4 Oct 2016
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Being in a Virtual World : Presence, Environment, Salience, Sound. / Walther-Hansen, Mads ; Grimshaw, Mark.

Proceedings of the 11th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction With Sound. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 77-84.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

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