Cyberspace, Media and Interaction - 2nd semester
Code
722011034
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Graça Rocha Simões
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Skills acquisition for a rigorous inspection and research about telepresence and its relation with other linked concepts namely interaction and interactivity with the overall goal of understanding digital specific contexts and communicational behaviours. Telepresence, often shortened to presence, is a state or perception in which we overlook or misconstrue the role of technology and feel present in the environments and/or connected to the people or things we experience via technology. For example, we get “lost” in the world of a videogame or virtual museum; we’re convinced by the realism of paintings or graphic designs; we treat computers or other \"intelligent\" machines as if they have personalities of their own, and we feel like we’re “with” a person we talk to on the phone or in a videoconference. It’s increasingly relevant to a wide range of media experiences and application areas.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
Technological mediation, human-technology relations, human-technology interaction: theoretical framework
What is Cyberspace? Still a useful concept?
About interaction design and experience design
Interaction and interactivity. Active and passive interaction. The \"place\" of interfaces.
Immersion, engagement and flow
Telepresence, form presence in tele-operations/tele-robotics and Virtual Reality to other digital mediated contexts. Social presence and co-presence
Artificial agents: bots, robots (and others)
Bibliography
Idhe, Don (1990). Technology and the Lifeworld – From Garden to Earth. Bloomington and Indianopolis: Indiana University Press.
Kiousis, S. (2002). ”Interactivity: a concept explication”. New Media & Society, Vol. 4, September, pp. 355-383.
Kiran, A. (2012). \"Technological Presence: Actuality and Potentiality in Subject Constitution\". A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
Heeter, C. (1992). “Being There: The Subjective Experience of presence”. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, pp. 262-271.
Lee, K.M. (2004).”Presence, Explicated”. Communication Theory, 14(1), 27-50.
Lombard, M. & Ditton, T. (1997). “At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence”.
Obana, F.; Tori, R. (2010). “Conceitos de Presença”. São Paulo.
Zhao, S. (2004). Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence. Department of Sociology, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Teaching method
In class teaching.
The teaching method includes theoretical exposition of contents supported by the active and critical participation of students (60%); components of practical work (40%)
Evaluation method
1) Active individual participion and contribution on class and team work, wich includes two small assignments with oral presentation in class (40%), 2) A final individual paper (3000-4000 words), with oral presentation and discussion in class (60%).