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A taxonomy is proposed to classify all varieties of technologically-mediated experience. This includes virtual reality and teleoperation, and also earlier devices such as the microscope and telephone. The model of mediated interaction assumes a sensor-display link from the world to the human, and an action-actuator link going back from the human to the world, with the mediating technology transforming the transmitted experience in some way. The taxonomy is used to classify a number of example systems.
Extracted from a paper “Synthetic experience: A proposed taxonomy” published in Presence, Vol. 1, No. 2, ©1992 The MIT Press, with permission.
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Robinett, W. (1994). Synthetic Experience. In: Rogers, D.F., Earnshaw, R.A. (eds) State of the Art in Computer Graphics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4306-9_9
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