A Presence Measure for Virtual Reality and Telepresence based on Multimodal Conflicts

Abstract

A measure to rate the quality of individual presence for VR and telepresence systems is introduced based on the perception of bimodal information. Experiments were conducted with a visual-haptic human system interface driven by a virtual reality to validate the new presence measure. The quantitative results were obtained by magnitude estimation of the conflict perceived. It was shown that the new measure could be used as a reliable indicator of how presence is affected by bimodal conflicts. Keywords--Presence definition, presence measurement, visual-haptic telepresence, psychophysics.