Online Resources

• ISPR - International Society for Presence Research - Created in January 2002 to support the ongoing Presence Workshop series and provide information on the presence concept.
• The Presence Workshops give a good and up-to-date overview of research activities in the area of presence. All workshops have an online programme with links to papers (although some pages may be unavailable).
  
  
  • PRESENCE 2002 - Fifth Annual International Workshop on Presence
  • PRESENCE 2001 - 4th International Workshop on Presence
  • PRESENCE 2000 - 3rd International Workshop on Presence
  • 2nd International Workshop on Presence
  • Workshop on Presence in Shared Virtual Environments
  
  
• FREE Book on Presence: BEING THERE: CONCEPTS, EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF USER PRESENCE IN SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS, Amsterdam: IOS Press.
• VREFresh - Free electronic newsletter for the Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive three-dimensional (i3D) systems community
• VIS-SIM.org - Visual Simulation Resource
• TNO-FEL's VR link list
• Knowledge Base Project (HITLab) VR resources
• VR Sites listing
• ACTS Common European Newsletter: Special Issue on Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments
• Special Issue of JCMC: Designing Presence in Virtual Environments
• Presence Bibliography by Toni Emerson, Anthony Steed and Mark Billinghurst (1999)
• Media Research Resources

Journals & Newsletters

• CyberPsychology and Behavior (sample issue available online)
• Haptics-e (online journal)
• Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
• Journal of Communication (abstracts available online)
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (online journal)
• Media Psychology
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (abstracts and sample papers available online)
• Presence-Connect: The online companion to the Presence journal
• Telemedicine Today (articles from past issues available online)
• The Journal of Virtual Environments (online journal)
• Virtualnomics (online newsletter of the HFES)
• VR News (sample issue available online)
• VRS Journal (abstracts from back issues available online)

Newsgroups

• 3DUI - 3D User Interfaces mailing list and website (Japan)
• ACM SigVR (USA)
• Cavernus - CAVE Research Network Users Society (USA)
• ed-3d - list for educators of 3D and VR technologies (UK)
• Haptics-L - mailing list for the international haptics community (CAN)
• HFES VE-TG (CAN)
• LVRG - London VR Group (UK)
• Presence-L - discussion list of the presence community (USA)
• Sci.virtual-worlds (USA)
• UK VR Forum - initiative of UK DTI to stimulate business uptake of VR
• UK-VRSIG (UK)
• VRPSYCH-L - VR and psychology list (USA)