Gates Matthew Stoner

The University of Arizona | UA · Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Guided by interpersonal deception theory and the principle of interactivity, this investigation examined whether communication modalities differentially affect the extent to which group members develop trust or are vulnerable to manipulation and deceit, based on the degree of interactivity the modalities afford. According to the principle of intera...

The need for a theory of social presence is more press- ing as the Internet and virtual environments become increas- ing social. With time we can observe an increase in social interaction not only among users, but also between users and computer agents. A robust and detailed theory and measure of social presence could contribute to our under- stand...