The Cyborg's Dilemma - Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments

Author

• Frank Biocca
• Media Interface and Network Design (M.I.N.D.) Lab
• Michigan State University

Full text: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue2/biocca2.html

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Minding the Body, the Primordial Communication Medium
• Embodiment: The Teleology of Interface Design
• Embodiment: Thinking through our Technologically Extended Bodies
• User Embodiment and Three Forms in Which the Body "Feels" Present in the Virtual Environment
• Presence: Emergence of a Design Goal and Theoretical Problem
• Being There: The Sense of Physical Presence in Cyberspace
• Being with another Body: Designing the Illusion of Social Presence
• Is This Body Really "Me"? Self Presence, Body Schema, Self-consciousness, and Identity
• The Cyborg's Dilemma
• Footnotes
• References
• About the Author