Chapter 5SOCIAL INTERACTION
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Being Social
- 5.3 Face-to-Face Conversations
- 5.4 Remote Conversations
- 5.5 Co-presence
- 5.6 Social Engagement
5.1 Introduction
People are inherently social: we live together, work together, learn together, play together, interact and talk with each other, and socialize. A number of technologies have been developed specifically to enable us to persist in being social when physically apart from one another, many of which have now become part of the fabric of society. These include the widespread use of smartphones, video chat, social media, gaming, messaging, and telepresence. Each of these afford different ways of supporting how people connect.
There are many ways to study what it means to be social. In this chapter, we focus on how people communicate and collaborate face-to-face and remotely in their social, work, and everyday lives—with the goal of providing models, insights, and guidelines ...