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Federico Pianzola1,2, Giuseppe Riva3,4, Karin Kukkonen5
1Department of Human Sciences for Education "R. Massa", University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Open Research Europe
|August 30, 2023
Summary
This study proposes a new cognitive model for understanding presence and related phenomena across real and mediated experiences. It integrates embodied predictive processing to explain how we engage with various media, from books to virtual reality.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Media Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Presence, flow, and immersion are studied across disciplines, often linked to mediated experiences and agent engagement.
- Existing research shows overlap in questionnaire items measuring diverse phenomena like identification and empathy.
- A need exists for an interdisciplinary systematization and a unified cognitive model for presence.
Purpose of the Study:
- To categorize psychological aspects of presence-related phenomena based on a scoping review.
- To propose an interdisciplinary systematization of presence.
- To present a new cognitive model of presence phenomena for both mediated and non-mediated experiences.
Main Methods:
- Conducted a scoping review to identify similarities in questionnaire items for presence-related phenomena.
- Categorized items into relevant psychological aspects for interdisciplinary systematization.
- Developed a new cognitive model based on embodied predictive processing, integrating spatial, temporal, and design aspects.
Main Results:
- Identified key psychological aspects underlying various presence-related phenomena.
- Proposed a novel cognitive model integrating selective attention, intention enactment, and interoception.
- Defined presence as the state of perceived successful agency of an embodied mind enacting predictions.
Conclusions:
- The proposed model explains presence in both real-life and simulated experiences.
- Differences between real and simulated experiences stem from precision weighting of sensory signals.
- Embodied predictive processing offers a unified framework for understanding engagement with media and reality.
Keywords:
Presenceactive inferencebook problemflowimmersionnarrative absorptionparadox of fictionpredictive processingMore Related Videos
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