[Air-L] Social Presence Theory - latest studies?

[Marcela Musgrove]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Christian Nelson <xianknelson at 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