The Y axis shows the maximum score achieved by a player during the trials. The score is based on the number and proportion of contact times between the ring and the wire. No variable can be deleted from the model without significantly worsening the goodness of fit. For the between subjects design the results are the same, except that age is not significant. The haptic plus visual condition results in a higher sense of reported togetherness than the visual only condition.
Females tend to report a higher sense of togetherness than males.
Togetherness is positively associated with the estimated extent of social anxiety of the remote partner. A performance score was constructed from the proportion of time that the ring was not intersecting the wire. Since there were many attempts for each experimental subject, we take the maximum score achieved as a measure of task performance. As would be expected performance is significantly better with the presence of the haptic feedback. The model includes the basic condition and 'togetherness'.