On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Christian Nelson <xianknelson@mac.com> wrote:
Also, there appears to be a lot of information here: <http://www.presence-research.org/>.
Wijnand Ijsselsteijn used to maintain the Presence Research site but hasn't updated in a while. Some of his more current papers on social presence include: Kort, Y.A.W. de, IJsselsteijn, W.A., Poels, K. (2007). Digital games as social presence technology : development of the social presence in gaming questionnaire (SPGQ). In L Moreno (Ed.), PRESENCE 2007 Proceedings. (pp. 195-203). Barcelona: Starlab. Romero Herrera, N.A., Markopoulos, P., Baren, J.K. van, Ruyter, B.E.R. de, IJsselsteijn, W.A., Farshchian, B.A. (2007). Connecting the family with awareness systems. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 4(11), 299-312. de Ruyter, B., Huijnen, C., Markopoulos, P., & IJsselsteijn, W.A. (2006). Creating social presence through peripheral awareness. In: E. Aarts & E. Diederiks (eds.), Ambient Lifestyle: From Concept to Experience. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, pp. 69-71. IJsselsteijn, W.A. (2005). Social presence in e-learning. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 1, 85-87. Also Special Issue on Presence in Psychnology: http://www.psychnology.org/400.php The book Being There: Concepts, effects and measurements of user presence in synthetic environments edited by Riva, Davide, and Ijsselsteijn is available for download online for free at http://www.neurovr.org/emerging/volume5.html or orderable by Amazon Bonnie Nardi's "Beyond Bandwidth: Dimensions of Connection in Interpersonal Communication" from Journal Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Vol. 14, No. 2. (April 2005) also mentions social presence with respect to CMC and IM-ing. Enough stuff for you to browse through Marcela