Posted in cyberloom, tagged Second Life, avatars, Social Presence Theory, Communications, Virtual Reality, Second Life™, Virtuals Worlds, 'Avatar Heroes', elros Tuominen, Business meetings in Second Life, Sluggles on May 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Perhaps, today’s sophisticated technologies sometimes feel too real and immediate? Heightened reality is not necessarily what we want in our communications nor does it automatically provide strong social presence.
Posted in cyberloom, tagged avatars, Communications, education, Second Life, Social Presence Theory, Virtual Reality, virtual worlds on March 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Avatars dancing
Social Presence Theory (SPT) was developed by the social psychologist John Short (1976). He conducted examinations of different media to see to what extent users experienced each other as ‘real’ people (rather than just vague presences) at the other end of impersonal communication devices.
The intensity of our sense of the social presence of others [...]
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