Effect of Social Actors Perceived Agency on Social Presence in Computer-Mediated Communication

Figure 3

Social presence boxplots for the four conditions of the experiment: presumed human opponent with emotional communication (PH-EC), presumed human (PH), computer with emotional communication (C-EC), and computer (C). Blue boxes indicate presumed human conditions and hatched boxes indicate conditions with emotional communication. (a) Copresence (CP) mean scores, (b) perceived affective understanding (PAU) mean scores, (c) perceived emotional interdependence (PEI) mean scores, and (d) perceived behavioral interdependence (PBI) mean scores.

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