Identifying and Coding Behavioral Indicators of Social Presence With a Social Presence Behavioral Coding System

Social presence, the sense of connection with another, is more important than ever as teachers, healthcare providers, and other professionals are using immersive tools to facilitate social interaction for education, training, therapy collaboration between geographically distributed humans surrogates (avatars, agents, or robots). Leading researchers cite subjective nature traditional self-report measures presence absence a standardized approach measuring constraint gaining deeper understanding user’s experiences emerging existing tools. This discourse highlights behavioral indicators that have been identified over decades across disciplines from psychology, communication, computer science, engineering. The authors explicate themes describe classification system grounded in exogenic endogenic presence. article goes on design coding (SPBCS) instrument provides structure behaviors associated users’ experience described this paper first step creating robust quantifying through behavioral, physiological, ultimately may replace current standard approaches describing all realities.