HyperMirror: Toward Pleasant-to-Use Video Mediated Communication System

We designed HyperMirror to provide a new video image that presents an attractive, highly understandable communication environment, rather than imitating face-toface communication. The HyperMirror environment enables all participants to feel they are sharing the same virtual space. Participants communicate using images meeting the condition "What I See Is What You See" (WISIWYS). Both local and remote participants appear together on a shared video wall, and all things on the wall - even those out of reach -- become appear to come within reach. Participants sharing the screen tend to act as if they are in the same room. Keywords HyperMirror, WISIWYS, mirror image, awareness, video conference, telepresence , interpersonal communication

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Osamu Morikawa, Takanori Maesako
• Keywords: CSCW 1998, Face-toface Communication, Remote Participants, Social Sciences, Understandable Communication Environment