As a novel opportunity to acquire capital from the masses, crowdfunding has attracted great attention in academia and practice. So far, little is known about the factors that promote the success of crowdfunding projects, however. In this paper, we examine in how far the social presence perceived on a project’s website influences the success of the respective crowdfunding project. Based on a dat...

Introduction This paper discusses the concept of 'connectedness', exploring its relationship with the concepts of 'social presence' and 'awareness', and arguing that although 'social presence' and 'awareness' have received most focus in previous research, 'connectedness' is, in fact, a more fundamental concept. 'Connectedness' is potentially a key concept in the analysis of communication and th...

The Rich Presence Information Data Format (RPID) adds elements to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) that provide additional information about the presentity and its contacts. The information is designed so that much of it can be derived automatically, e.g., Schulzrinne, et al. Expires September 11, 2004 [Page 1] Internet-Draft RPID March 2004 from calendar files or user activity. This...

Continuing social presence of the dead: exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation Louis Bailey, Jo Bell & David Kennedy To cite this article: Louis Bailey, Jo Bell & David Kennedy (2015) Continuing social presence of the dead: exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 21:1-2, 72-86, DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2014.983554...

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In this paper, we explore ways to combine the video of a remote person with a shared tabletop display to best emulate face-toface collaboration. Using a simple photo application we compare a variety of social and performance measures of collaboration when using two approaches for adding spatial cues to videoconferencing: one based on immersive 3D, the other based on traditional 2D video-planes....

• Social relationships are commonly described in terms of physical space.1 • When drawing simple routes on maps, people draw paths closer to friends than strangers.2 • Americans overestimate the distance to cities outside the borders of the United States.3 • Inclusive social group words like “we” and “us” facilitate spatial location verification when attached to items shown proximately to a vie...

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