#43. Subjective Fear and The Experience of Presence - Dr. Christopher Maymon

Dr. Chris Maymon, of Victoria University of Wellington, talks to us about is research on the experience of being present. Him and his team use virtual reality to test the causal role of subjective and physiological components of fear in generating presence. Dr. Maymon goes through the background of understanding being present as a concept and how it is measured, the use of virtual reality in his experiments and some of the interesting findings including how your subjective fear and not your heart rate and other physiological measures impact our experience of presence.

00:00 Introduction to the paper
06:00 How do you study presence?
19:18 Why use virtual reality to study presence?
35:05 Top down and bottom up processing
44:10 Mediating relationships in Presence
50:36 Theories for why physiological changes don't explain presence
1:01:12 Explanations and future directions


Read the paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

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