Perceived co-location (shared space/we are together)

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The definitions under this heading can involve technology or not involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is external and/ or internal; there is either an accurate perceptioon that there is no technology involved in the experience or an inaccurate perception that technology is not involved when it is; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically perceptions that one is with other(s) in a shared space.

Sample defintion(s):

From Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):

"Co-location: “the feeling that the people with whom one is collaborating are in the same room” (Mason 1994)

“[T]he degree of tangibility and proximity of other people that one perceives in a communication situation” (McLeod, Baron et al. 1997)

“[T]he sense of being together” (de Greef & IJsselsteijn 2000; Cho & Proctor 2001)