Online relating

What a screen changes about presence, closeness and fatigue.

Region: Between two people
Distance: Near
Studies what a circle does, in live interaction.
Scale: Two people · A small group (3–12)
Researchers to read first: Jeremy N. Bailenson, Géraldine Fauville and Joseph B. Walther
Where they meet: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · Conference
International Communication Association · Society
International Society for Presence Research · Society

No work from this field is in the catalogue yet.

Moves it sheds light on

Our reading. None of these fields tests a move inside a circle.

Connection
Ran the same two-minute partner meditation online and in person; closeness rose in both, though the two settings weren’t compared directly.
Ludwig et al. · 2025