participants felt that they could effectively communicate both verbally and gesturally.

The following responses to the debriefing session reaffirm these Eindings:

 "Ultimately, I had fun. There were a few synch issues but we found out ways to
 interact with the limited tools at our disposal."

 "I felt very connected to the other person and I felt that the acting experience was
 very worthwhile. I actually felt like if we were rehearsing a scene we would have
 gotten someplace with our exercise."

 "It was very easy to feel like you're with another person in the space. One,
 because you were talking to them. And two, because you're always conscious of
 the fact that they're going to be looking at what you're at least partially doing."

 "I started to think of the images on the screen as being another person in the room
 with me; it very much seemed like a human Eigure and I felt as though I were in
 their presence."

 Several items on the co-presence questionnaire generated interesting results.

Question 4, which asked, "To what extent did you feel embarrassed with respect to what

you believed the other person might be thinking of you?" generated an average score of

1.25 (on a scale of 1 [not at all] to 7 [a great deal]). Questions 6 and 7, which determined

the degree to which each participant felt their progress was hindered by their partner and

vice versa, generated an average score of 1.5 and 1.75, respectively. These low results

are likely a result of the participants having previously worked with each other. This co-

presence questionnaire uses the participant' s unfamiliarity with their partner to gauge co-

presence by showing the existence of social phenomena such as shyness and awkward

interaction with the aforementioned questions. Thus, participants familiar with each

other, or those who have acted together before, would probably get low scores on those

questions.

 Question 14, which measured the degree to which each participant had a sense

that there was another human being interacting with them (as opposed to just a machine),