Social Presence in Virtual Worlds

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Join us in a collaborative effort to explore and understand the effects of Social Presence on teaching and learning in desktop 3D virtual worlds.

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Traditional social presence theories (traditional as in classroom-based, face-to-face) and the few mediated social presence studies (videoconferencing, Blackboard...) have proven that social presence can increase student satisfaction and perceived learning outcomes (Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Richardson & Swan, 2003). But there has not been much done on social presence in learning events via desktop 3D immersive environments, such as SL. One recent and promising theory of mediated social presence is the Networked Minds Theory of Social Presence (Harms & Biocca, 2004).

Immediacy is closely related to the concept of social presence. In an environment such as SL in which the instructor and the students' communication is mediated via avatars, which immediacy behaviors support communication, attention and motivation, and promote students' collaboration? What real life immediacy behaviors transfer in SL? or how do they translate?

Let's use this space to talk and share ideas, research and practice as well as to brainstorm on enhancing learning experiences and outcomes with a better knowledge of the social presence affordances of SL.

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Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 20, 2011 at 6:58pm: I am bringing this group over to ARVEL SIG. Please follow us at http://arvelsig.ning.com/group/presencein3d

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 29, 2011 at 3:13pm: Kinect-Based project:

This latest one is called Kinectynth, a project by Rahul Budhiraja: "Kinectynth is a Gesture Based browser for PhotoSynths(http://photosynth.net/). To use Kinectynth, you can download the points of your chosen Photosynth using SynthExport (http://synthexport.codeplex.com/) in the ASCII ply format and then load them with my software.

The Datasets used in the video are

Temple: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=c0a56947-1460-4d25-84e2-12de5db5914c &

Living Room:http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=780478aa-e77c-4031-bc4d-50a689812b53

Visit https://github.com/rahulbudhiraja/Kinectynth for the Source.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 11, 2011 at 1:49pm: March 11: 2011 Metareality podcast with special guest Jeffrey Ventrella.

http://metarealitypodcast.com/avatars-and-virtual-body-language

Jeffrey's book is published at Lulu:

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on October 13, 2010 at 12:28am: ARVEL SIG hosts a Center for Social Presence tomorrow Oct 13, 1pm PST/SLT (21:00 GMT). Meet at http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/25/204/35 and then look for the double door to get to the Center's location. We will review the impact of attentive listening postures, smiles, lipsync, pointing and usage of humor. The hands-on activity will focus on personalizing an animation overrider (AO). Cheers, the ARVEL SIG Team (http://www.arvelsig.com/)

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on December 22, 2009 at 9:45pm: Great question Salwa. I re-posted your comment here for forum purposes.

Comment by Asako on December 14, 2009 at 10:55pm: Greetings All! The group name is very intriguing! I look forward to connecting with you all. Cheers, Asako

Comment by Salwa Khan on December 7, 2009 at 11:09am: What is the difference between presence in Second Life--which is generally described as a feeling of "being there" in a virtual space with other real people, and social presence? Is social presence a part of the overall construct of "presence"--or something wholly different?

Comment by James Fullerton on December 7, 2008 at 5:53am: Greetings All! What an interesting collection of like minded people. As an educator in K-12 who is interested in using TSL in virtual and hybrid classes, I think I've found a home to share ideas.

Comment by Grinn Pidgeon on November 4, 2008 at 3:50pm: Good article in IJTLHE on "Presence Pedagogy": http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/index.cfm

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on October 29, 2008 at 10:20am: Bonnie, yes, absolutely. We can have a rotating schedule so that all time zones can be accommodated. I"ll send a schedule poll soon.
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