Title page -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Contents -- Section I. Communication and Presence: Their Relationship -- Communication - Presence Roundtrip: Travelling Along Theoretical, Methodological and Applicative Connections -- Section II. From Presence to Communication: Inner Presence vs. Media Presence -- Media Presence and Inner Presence: The Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality Technologies -- Being-in-the-world-with: Presence Meets Social and Cognitive Neuroscience -- Presence as a Dimension of Communication: Context of Use and the Person -- Media Presence, Consciousness and Dreaming -- Section III. From Communication to Presence: Emotion, Cognition and Culture -- Structure and Communication in Interactions -- Zooming on Multimodality and Attuning: A Multilayer Model for the Analysis of the Vocal Act in Conversational Interactions -- Strategic Emotion in Negotiation: Cognition, Emotion, and Culture -- Personality and Self-Esteem in Social Interaction -- Methodological Approaches in Human Communication: From Complexity of Perceived Situation to Data Analysis -- Multimodal Temporal Patterns for the Analysis of User's Involvement in Affective Interaction with Virtual Agents -- Section IV. Communication and Presence in Practice: Leisure, Therapy and Learning -- Communication and Interaction in Multiplayer First-Person-Shooter Games -- Communication and Experience in Clinical Psychology and Neurorehabilitation: The Use of Virtual Reality Driving Simulators -- Learning Communication Skills Through Computer-Based Interactive Simulations -- Author Index.