100 7 ActingandInteracting in the Here and Now critical, and new methods of user experience assessment will be needed to fully capitalise on the potential of blended reality spaces. As we stated at the beginning of the book, technology is constantly changing, but people remain the same. They consciously perceive the world around them, and act out their intentions there, in the present time and place in which they are located. They do this on the basis of evolved bodies and structures of meaning that have remained unchanged over millennia. More than ever before, the here and now reality in which we all live and function is comprised of both physical and virtual elements,buttheseelementsarecurrentlynotwellintegratedandgenerallyinterfere with each other. In this book we have presented the human-experiential design of blendedreality spaces – interactive spaces that combine the physical and the virtual in ways that match humans sense making and action in the here and now. References Carroll JM,ShihPC,HoffmanB,WangJ,HanK(2014).Presenceandhyperpresence: implications for community awareness. In: Riva, Waterworth, Murray D (eds) Interacting with presence: HCIandthesenseofpresence incomputer-mediated environments. DeGruyter Open, Warsaw, Poland ThePsychologist, 28, 7, July 2015, page 577 Waterworth EL, Waterworth JA (2010) Mediated presence in the future. In: Bracken CC, Skalski PD(eds)Immersedinmedia:telepresenceineveryday life.Routledge,Taylor&FrancisGroup, NewYork,pp183–196
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