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Video Mediated Communication for Domestic Environments

Architectural and Technological Design

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This paper presents different solutions for the integration of Video Mediated Communication (VMC) into the home environment considering primarily architectural and technical aspects. The context is entitled comHOME, a concept dwelling of the future designed and built as a full-scale model in collaboration with a telecom operator. The principal problem investigated is the various aspects of private and public zones when using VMC in a home environment. The solution concerns the integration of different comZONES (communicative zones for VMC), where the resident can be seen and heard at different levels varying in time and space. The comZONES presented include, for example, a “videoTORSO” – a large vertically mounted flat screen for informal everyday communication and a “mediaSPACE” – a set-up consisting of a wall of screens permitting shared activities in both time and space. The comZONES are mainly described from an architectural (form and function) as well as technological (hardware and software) perspective.

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  1. Interactive Institute, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stefan Junestrand & Konrad Tollmar

  2. Center for User Oriented IT-Design, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stefan Junestrand & Konrad Tollmar

  3. Dept. of Architectural Design and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stefan Junestrand

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  1. Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

    Norbert A. Streitz

  2. HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jane Siegel

  3. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics School for Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Hartkopf

  4. IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Shin’ichi Konomi

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Junestrand, S., Tollmar, K. (1999). Video Mediated Communication for Domestic Environments. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_16

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