Overview of the Second International Workshop on Presence: April 6-7, 1999, Colchester, England

On the 6th and 7th of April 1999, the Second International Workshop on Presence was held at the University of Essex. The event was organized by Jonathan Freeman (currently at Goldsmiths College, University of London and at the University of Essex during the workshop) and Wijnand IJsselsteijn (IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction) as part of the European Commission ACTS TAPESTRIES project. The TAPESTRIES project was managed by the UK Independent Television Commission (ITC) and the workshop was sponsored by SONY, BT, and the ITC. The workshop program is followed by a brief introduction to presence and then by short summaries of each of the papers.