Programme
PRESENCE
When: 22-23 September, 2025
Where: Dresden & Live on YouTube
This is the ninth in the socialBRIDGES series and is scheduled to take place on 22nd and 23rd of September 2025. This will be our second hybrid event with all efforts made to ensure that whether you join us online or in person in the beautiful city of Dresden, you will be stimulated and challenged to cross disciplinary boundaries. As in our other events, the conference will consist of regular and keynote talks, interactive sessions, as well as a virtual poster room and conference lobby for participants to socially interact during the breaks.
| MONDAY, 22.09.2025 | ||||
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| Session | Speaker | Title | ||
| 09:45 | Welcome and Opening | |||
| 10:00 | Keynote | Kristine Nowak |
What Presence and “Being There” Means for Being Here: Trends, Warnings and Even Suggestions |
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| 11:00 | Talk |
Rami El Ali |
Towards a Unified Account of the Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality |
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| 11:30 | Talk | Katja Krug | Present or represented? Sharing Spaces with Avatars in Mixed Reality | |
| 12:00 | Interactive session | Christoph Levermann | Puppeteer demo |
The presence and value of the art figure in the real and digital space |
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| 12:30 | LUNCH | |||
| 13:30 | Talk | Tom Froese | What is the neural basis of recognizing haptic feedback as mediated social touch? | |
| 14:00 | Talk | Camille Salaberry | Social Robot-Avatar: Asymmetric Interaction and Perception of the Sense of Presence | |
| 14:30 | Talk | Sara Falcone | A multidisciplinary investigation to unravel the complexity of the sense of embodiment in teleoperation | |
| 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 15:30 | Talk |
Chris Salter |
Specious Presence: Shifting attention and experience in mixed reality |
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| 16:00 | Talk | Robin Zebrowski | Presence-As-Absence and Intercorporeality: Being-At-A-Distance | |
| 16:30 | Talk | Andrea Stevenson Won |
The Potential of Co-Embodiment for Hypersocial Interactions in Hybrid Meetings |
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| 17:00 | Keynote |
Mel Slater |
Advances in the Theory and Evaluation of Presence |
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| 18:00 | CLOSING OF DAY 1 | |||
| TUESDAY, 23.09.2025 | |||||
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| Session | Speaker | Title | |||
| 10:00 | Keynote | Olaf Blanke |
Multisensory body perception and self-consciousness |
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| 11:00 | Talk | Nicolas Hinrichs | A Geometry for Sense-Making | ||
| 11:30 | Talk | Laura Oppi | Mapping Perceptual Presence | ||
| 12:00 | Talk |
Beliz Güçbilmez |
The Presence Tense: A Collapse and a Call to Design | ||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | ||||
| 13:30 | Talk | Bree McEwan |
Affording Presence: Presence and other affordances related to virtually being there |
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| 14:00 | Talk | Grace Ahn | The Boundary Conditions of Presence Experiences in Persuasive Communication | ||
| 14:30 | Talk | Ceren Özcan | Embodied Experience in Theatrical Space: Co-Presence, Co-Constitution, and Communitas | ||
| 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||||
| 15:15 | Interactive session | Asaf Bachrach | Movement demo | The present [is] tense | ||
| 16:00 | Talk | Anna Ciaunica |
(Dis)Embodied Joint Agency in Human-Virtual Agents Interactions |
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| 16:30 | Talk | David Parisi | “I want it to be able to hurt me”: pain, desire, and (spectacles of) haptic simulation | ||
| 17:00 | Interactive session | Theatre roundtable discussion | |||
| 18:00 | CLOSING REMARKS | ||||
* Time Zone: Central European Standard Time (CET)