This paper presents an overview of the Social Event Detection (SED) task that has been running as part of the MediaEval benchmarking activity for three consecutive years (2011 2013). The task has focused on various aspects of social event detection and retrieval and has attracted a significant number of participants. We discuss the evolution of the task and the datasets, we summarize the set of...

Previous work indicates that physical robots elicit more favorable social responses than virtual agents. These effects have been attributed to the physical embodiment. However, a recent meta-analysis by Li [1] suggests that the benefits of robots are due to physical presence rather than physical embodiment. To further explore the importance of presence we conducted a pilot study investigating t...

At a time of increased social usage of net and collaborative applications a robust and detailed theory of social presence could contribute to our understanding of social behavior in mediated environments, allow researchers to predict and measure differences among media interfaces, and guide the design of new social environments and interfaces. A broader theory of social presence can guide more ...

Video instant messaging tools are not as widely used as we would have predicted and have so far failed to fulfill their promise to become an indispensable tool of social presence, interacting within the workgroup environment and creating a sense of community. Whilst users are becoming comfortable with videoconferencing and software video meetings, the use of video in “awareness” is still very u...

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0953-5438/$ see front matter 2012 British Inform http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2012.03.003 q This paper has been recommended for acceptance ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. Siriaraya), Ang). 3D virtual worlds are becoming increasingly popular as tool for social interaction, with the potential of augmenting the user’s perception of physical and social presence....

Towards a framework of interactions in a blended synchronous learning environment: what effects are there on students' social presence experience? Elson Szeto & Annie Y. N. Cheng To cite this article: Elson Szeto & Annie Y. N. Cheng (2016) Towards a framework of interactions in a blended synchronous learning environment: what effects are there on students' social presence experience?, Interacti...

How does social presence influence the perception of energy expenditure? People often think about social relationships in terms of space. For instance, when drawing routes on maps they draw paths closer to friends than strangers (Matthews & Matlock, 2011). How does the mere presence of a friend influence reasoning about caloric expenditure? Here, participants who imagined working for an outdoor...

MathGirls is computer-based algebra designed for high school girls learning algebra I. Given that girls are in general more interested in interactive computing and more positive about the social presence of pedagogical agents, the primary goal of MathGirls is to provide a girl-friendly learning environment that helps enhance girls’ self-efficacy beliefs in and motivation towards learning algebr...

In this article, we discuss and empirically examine the importance of embodiment, context, and spatial proximity as they pertain to collaborative interaction and task completion in virtual environments. Specifically, we introduce the embodied social presence (ESP) theory as a framework to account for a higher level of perceptual engagement that users experience as they engage in activity-based ...