As a telepresence robot is a robot intended for use in telecommunications, conveying the presence of a remote sender is an important issue. Even though certain characteristics of robots such as motion cues could be effective at generating a sense of remote sender presence, motion cues also have risks yielding a distortion of the remote sender presence when these are used in an inappropriate way...

This research explores the potential determinants of trust in newly formed virtual teams to better inform the choice of communication media for virtual emergency response groups for which interpersonal trust is crucial. Results of a laboratory experiment indicate that the way that communicants view their teammates and themselves as part of that team is significantly correlated with the level of...

Intelligent advisory services have gradually penetrated into every aspect of people's lives. Ranging from e-commerce to e-government platforms, intelligent advisory systems, with anthropomorphic and user-centered design, can potentially help to remove the technical barriers that commonly exist on traditional websites. In the research background of an intelligent advisory system in the health do...

Low and high status member posts from online fan message board posts were examined. Low status members, as compared to high status members, were found to use more intimacy and immediacy social presence cues, including: praise for the group, self-disclosure, friendly and positive affective language, first person singular pronouns, and present tense verbs. Low status members were less likely than...

The explosion in the number of students taking online courses warrants a deeper understanding of instructor strategies that meet rhetorical and relational goals. Guided by social presence theory and rhetorical and relational goals theory, 329 participants were randomly assigned into one of three manipulated social presence online learning conditions to watch a short lecture. The student percept...

The purpose of this study was to create a model for examining the relationships between computer-mediated-communication (CMC) apprehension, CMC skill, and CMC presence. Using structural-equation modeling, the study found that CMC apprehension and CMC skill negatively corelated with each other ( .36). Furthermore, CMC apprehension was not shown to relate to CMC presence ( .09), but CMC presence ...

In the past years, there has been a surge in game controllers that allow players to play in a more physical, more natural way. In this paper we present an experimental study of the effect of gaming using these naturally mapped controllers on the player experience in a social setting. Results support the hypothesis that more naturally mapped controllers augment spatial presence. Furthermore, the...

Instructional media such as computer conferencing engender high levels of student-student and student-teacher interaction; therefore, they can support models of teaching and learning that are highly interactive and consonant with the communicative ideals of university education. This potential and the ubiquity of computer conferencing in higher education prompted three of the authors of the thi...

We examine three sets of established behavioral hypotheses about consumers’ in-store shopping behavior (the effect of perceived time pressure, licensing, and the social presence of other shoppers) using field data on shopping paths and linked purchases obtained from an actual grocery store. We incorporate these behavioral hypotheses within an individual-level probability model to examine their ...

The present sequential “mission oriented” approach to robotic planetary exploration, could be changed to an “infrastructure building” approach where a robotic presence is permanent, self sustaining and growing with each mission. We call this self-sustaining robotic ecology approach “robosphere” and discuss the technological issues that need to be addressed before this concept can be realized. O...