The mediation of social presence is one of the most interesting challenges of modern communication technology. The proposed metaphor of Interactive Social Displays describes new ways of interactions with multi-/crossmodal interfaces prepared for a psychologically augmented communication. A first prototype demonstrates the application of this metaphor in a teleconferencing scenario.

The presence of women in social and managerial fields is one the indicator of social justice and development that leads to optimum use of capabilities and potentials of half of the country's rural population. In the recent years, establishing public institution of Dehyary by the Ministry of Interior have provided new opportunity for women presence in rural management. This study aimed to identi...

The internet provides information media and social media for online consumers to seek information on the websites and opinions from other consumers. This study examined how the three dimensions of interactivity (control, communication direction, and synchronicity) affected users’ online information seeking process. Particularly, this study assessed how cognitive involvement and perceived social...

This study investigated how celebrities' self-disclosure on personal social media accounts, particularly Twitter, affects fans' perceptions. An online survey was utilized among a sample of 429 celebrity followers on Twitter. Results demonstrated that celebrities' professional self-disclosure (e.g., sharing their work-related life), personal self-disclosure (e.g., sharing their personal life suc...

Abstract When using a robot or a screen agent, elderly users might feel more enjoyment if they experience a stronger social presence. In two experiments with a robotic agent and a screen agent (both n=30) this relationship between these two concepts could be confirmed. Besides, both studies showed that social presence correlates with the Intention to Use the system, although there were some dif...

a Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Public Relations, 215 University Place, Syracuse, NY 13244, United States b SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System), Public Relations Department, 161 Mokdongseo-ro, Yangcheon-Ku, Seoul 158-051, Republic of Korea Dankook University, Department of Sports Management, Republic of Korea Director of Media Interface and Networ...

During emergencies, affected people use social media platforms for interaction and collaboration. Social media is used to ask for help, provide moral support, and to help each other, without direct face-to-face interactions. From a social presence point of view, we analyzed Twitter messages to understand how people cooperate and collaborate with each other during heavy rains and subsequent floo...

This study investigates the phenomenon of transactive memory by examining trust networks and social presence in human-computer interaction. Traditional theories suggest that transactive memory can be developed by structural mechanisms that increase knowledge specialization and task coordination, but more recent research also suggests that it can be enhanced through social network mechanisms and...

Banks expect the mobile channel to become more important for collaborating with customers. However, a lack of trust continues to prevent a faster dissemination of such mobile banking services, especially for the private banking customer segment. Hence, this paper discusses various determinants of trust and follows a theory-driven approach rooted in the collaboration engineering methodology. Gro...

To be perceived as believable partners in human-machine interactions, virtual agents have to express adequate social attitudes. The social attitude expressed by an agent should reflect the social situation of the interaction. The agent ought to take into account its role and its social relation toward its interactants when deciding how to react in the interaction. To build such an agent able to...