Toward a more robust theory and measure of social presence: review and suggested criteria
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Developing a measure of collective awareness in virtual teams
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Interpersonal connectedness: conceptualization and directions for a measurement instrument
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The portable community: envisioning and examining mobile social connectedness
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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Digital technologies are often designed to enhance a sense of social connection between users across physical space. Currently no quantitative scale has been validated to determine how effective a tool is in establishing social connection. This proposal outlines 3 studies designed to rigorously validate a scale of social connection in mediated spaces. To do this, a 24-item scale was developed and tested. In Study 1 the scale was given to 177 people to establish internal and convergent validity. Preliminary analyses suggests good overall internal reliability and convergent validity. Future studies intend to establish predictive validity across systems (Study 2) and within a single system (Study 3). The inventory should prove useful for tests of usability and theory. In the last section I describe its role in my dissertation.