LiveForm Telekinetics_M Teran and J Mann

Digital networks extend communication across distance and time. How might they influence the forms of our daily social interaction? Sharing a meal, a walk in the park, making music, sports or games – these are the kind of social activities and rituals we use to build meaningful relationships. But the typewriter keyboard and computer screen are artifacts of a business machine that seem out of place here. What if the interface allowed for body language, gesture, and physicality? What if you could go out for dinner and dancing with friends, even though you’re a thousand kilometers away?

mirrorSpace_HeHe

A set of telepresent mirrors placed in different locations that will capture who ever is in front of the mirrors and superimpose the live streamed video onto them, so that all the portraits can merge in the same space.

Physical proximity to other people is a form of non-verbal communication that we all employ everyday, although we are barely aware of it. Yet, existing systems for video-mediated communication fail to fully take into accountthese proxemics aspects of communication. In this note, we present MirrorSpace, a video communication system that uses proximity as an interface to providesmooth transitions between peripheral awareness and very close and intimateforms of communication.[the paper here]

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