Mode of co-presence

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In these definitions of presence technology is explicitly not involved; the phenomenon is an objective property of a mode of communication; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entities (usually humans), specifically the mode of co-presence between or among them.

Sample defintion(s):

Zhao (2003):
"Corporeal copresence is a form of human co-location in which both individuals are present in person at their sites as well as in each other's physical proximity. The co-location is such that the individuals are within range of each other's naked sense perceptions, and able to reach each other simultaneously through unmediated sensory channels... Corporeal copresence is the most primitive mode of human togetherness. To interact with someone in corporeal copresence is to interact with that person face to face from body to body." (p. 447)