The likes of clarity and efficiency are good communication concepts for designers and evaluators of business communication tools. They make little sense, however, when the design context of an interactive system is the support of a personal relationship. What matters then is that people feel they are ‘there’ for one another. This paper describes a new way of understanding Social Presence in tec...

We study the problems of classification and closeness testing. A classifier associates a test sequence with the one of two training sequences that was generated by the same distribution. A closeness test determines whether two sequences were generated by the same or by different distributions. For both problems all natural algorithms are symmetric—they make the same decision under all symbol re...

The aim of the present study was to examine the association between pornography use and aspects of socioemotional closeness in a non-clinical sample of 164 males. Participants' actual and ideal socioemotional closeness was measured by the Perceived Interpersonal Closeness Scale (PICS; Popovic et al., 2003) while their pornography use was examined by the Background and Pornography Use Informatio...

This study examined late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships. Participants were 88 European Americans (mean age = 19 years) who reported 3 self-defining memories of their choosing and were selected for the study because they reported a memory about parents and/or peers. Memory narratives were coded for themes of separation, closeness, and conflict and for 2 kinds of meaning:...

Abundant mafic and ultramafic rocks including basalts, komatiitic basalts, and peridotites occur in the Proterozoic Sibao Group, northern Guangxi Province, China. Whereas the basalts are generally pillow lavas, the komatiitic basalts are typically spinifex-textured and, in a few cases, show pyroxene accumulation associated with Ni Cu (PGE) sulfide deposits. The peridotites occur in the lower po...

This study examined late adolescents’ self-defining memories about relationships. Participants were 88 European Americans (M age 19 years) who reported 3 self-defining memories of their choosing, and were selected for the study because they reported a memory about parents and/or peers. Memory narratives were coded for themes of separation, closeness, and conflict, and for two kinds of meaning: ...