A processual view on social presence emergence in virtual worlds

Laura Kohonen-Aho; Pauli Alin

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2016.68

A processual view on social presence emergence in virtual worlds

Laura Kohonen-Aho
, Pauli Alin

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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Distributed collaboration is increasingly conducted in virtual worlds. Successful distributed collaboration is can benefit from social presence, the feeling of being there with others in a virtual environment. Social presence includes the dimensions of copresence, psychological involvement and behavioral engagement. Despite the importance of social presence, we currently lack empirically grounded understanding of how social presence emerges through these dimensions. To begin remedying this shortcoming, we analyzed how the social presence dimensions were organized in social interaction. We found that the order of the dimensions depends on verbal and nonverbal communication. These findings clarify extant theory of social presence emergence in 3D virtual worlds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	491-500
Number of pages	10
Volume	2016-March
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769556703
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.68
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2016
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Koloa, United States Duration: 5 Jan 2016 → 8 Jan 2016 Conference number: 49

Conference

Conference	Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Abbreviated title	HICSS
Country/Territory	United States
City	Koloa
Period	05/01/2016 → 08/01/2016

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Kohonen-Aho, L & Alin, P 2016, A processual view on social presence emergence in virtual worlds. in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016. vol. 2016-March, 7427244, IEEE, pp. 491-500, Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Hawaii, United States, 05/01/2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.68

A processual view on social presence emergence in virtual worlds. / Kohonen-Aho, Laura; Alin, Pauli.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016. Vol. 2016-March IEEE, 2016. p. 491-500 7427244.

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