Next year's ISPR Conference will take place in Vienna
Our research group will host the 15th International Conference on Presence in Vienna from 17.-19. March 2014. Visit our new official Conference Website or join our community on Facebook and find out more about this event!
Collaborative virtual environments for the older adults
We presented our recent work about a collaborative virtual environment for older adults at the Vienna Geriatric Conference 2013.
New publication in Computers & Education!
A paper about the first results from a social skills training online is now published in Computers & Education ("An online self-administered social skills training for young adults"). You can read the fulltext article via...
We had three talks accepted at Cyberspace12
The VRL-Team including Oswald D. Kothgassner and Anna Felnhofer as well as one of our closest research partners Lisa M. Glenk were accepted for full talks at the 10th International Conference at Masaryk University Brno.
The future of Virtual Reality: Talks at the Subotron arcademy
Anna Felnhofer and Oswald D. Kothgassner talked and discussed about the history of Virtual Reality, the importance of Presence and the future of social interactions in digital media at Center of Digital Culture (MQ) in Vienna.
Top Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the International Society on Presence Research
The paper "Is Virtual Reality Made for Men Only? Exploring Gender Differences in the Sense of Presence" is awarded as Top Paper at the ISPR: Presence Live 2012 in Philadelphia, USA.
New papers published!
The VRL-Team published two new papers in LNCS and Annual Proceedings of the International Society on Presence Research. Both publications are available via SpringerLink or the ISPR Website.
Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Entertainment Computing
The paper "A Virtual Training Tool for Giving Talks" is awarded as Best Paper at the International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2012 in Bremen.
VRL-Team at the European 4th Ambient Assisted Living Forum
Our Director and Managing Directors presented new insights and future perspectives in the field of Virtual Environments at the 4th european meeting at TU Eindhoven.
Presence and technology acceptance of elderly and younger participants in a VR-Café-Scenario
The concept of presence in the sense of ‚being there’ achieved by the perceptual illusion of non-mediation in a technically mediated environment is of vital importance for the experience of the virtual environment (VE).
