Co-presence: Sensory awareness of another person

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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 co-presence defined as the sensory awareness of another person.

Sample defintion(s):

Goffman (1959) in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):
"Co-presence: sensory awareness of the embodied other; "experiencing someone else with one’s naked senses" (p. 15); “physical distance over which one person can experience another with the naked senses-thereby finding that the other is “within range” (p. 16)"