Definitions for "Telepresence"
The use of robotic and other devices that allow a person (e.g., a surgeon) to perform a task at a remote site by manipulation instruments (e.g., lasers or dental hand pieces) and receiving sensory information or feedback e.g., pressure akin to that created by touching a patient) that creates a sense of being present at the remote site and allows a satisfactory degree of technical performance (e.g., dexterity)
Using technology to give the appearance of an individual being present at a location other than the actual location of that individual. An example would be a pilot in a sophisticated simulator which was actually controlling a real airplane 500 miles away, and providing to the pilot visual and other sensory feedback as if the pilot were actually in the cockpit looking out the windscreen and feeling the turbulence. As PME 2020 includes extensive mixing of real and artificial locations and people, many of the references to virtual reality or virtual residency will in context include traditional telepresence as an integral part.
sensation of being physically located in a real place other than where one is actually located
Telepresence is an open platform for distance education. The platform features a full computer assisted collaborative work tool for students and professors combining tele-conferencing with a network virtual environment.
The saturation of society by the media, especially television, creates a new form of human presence, a mediated presence.
The use of communications technologies in such a way as to provide each user with the feeling that other users are physically present. Two way live video is the most powerful, but telepresence can be created without video.
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.