Telephone conferences for fun: experimentation in people’s homes

摘要: The paper illustrates how communication experiments may be carried out in a domestic recreational context. Participants situated their homes were connected into group telephone conversations and simply asked to “chat enjoy yourselves”. Following the conversation, participants provided Likert scale ratings of experience. In addition, recorded analysed. A total 211 took part two experiments. Telephone groups had an average size five people, each speaking same conversation from individual homes. Comments rating scales indicated that it was positive primary manipulation experiment intended encourage spontaneous co-involvement all group. Experiment 1 this done by changing way introduced group, 2 made more salient providing member with list names. Open ended responses obtained interviews used construct questionnaire for measure presence, involvement efficacy. measures extracted transcripts included length utterances equality contribution as well new measure, number lines first “flow episode” transcript. While neither manipulations produced significant effects on after sessions or transcripts, is able recommend provide practical advice other investigators seeking run