How the system was used and problems with it

People constantly talked about the system

Spoke more to other people in the same room rather than in other room

When tried to get closer to someone in other room had counter intuitive effect - went out of range of camera and microphone

No monitoring to this problem

The system allowed only public conversations

Hypermirror (Morikawa and Maesako, 1998)

allows people to feel as if they are in the same virtual place even though in physically different spaces

(woman in white sweater is in a different room to the other three)

People in different places are

superimposedon the same screen

to make them appear as if in same space

Creating personal space in Hypermirror

2) Two in this room are invadingthe ‘virtual’ personal spaceof the other person by appearing to bephysically on top of woman in white sweater

3) Two in the room move apart to allow person in other space more ‘virtual’ personal space

Everyone happy

Activity

Do you think it is better to develop technologies that allow people to talk at a distance as if they were face-to-face or to develop technologies(Sms,IMs etc) that will support new ways of conversing?

Communicating in Co-located settings Number of sharable interfaces has been

developed to promote communication between co-located groups.

Examples.. Smartboards,tabletops,and public displays, plasma posters,

notification collage system

To situate shared displays in public places e.g. in hallways, reception areas.

Plasma posters are designed to enable users to send notes, news items from PCs in their offices to a large public display.

Dynamo system enables social groups to share and exchange a variety of media on a large shared display by hooking laptops, memory sticks etc.,

Thank you….