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Shadow communication: system for embodied interaction with remote partners

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"Shadow Communication" system has been developed allowing others to communicate by means of their "shadows" in remote space. This is designed so that each participant's shadow enters into a space through a semi-transparent screen and interacts with another subject's shadow. This interaction occurs at a common 'stage' (a co-existing space) that can be self-organized. The interaction takes place in a spatial relationship (<i>"ma"</i>- perceptive distance or <i>"Maai"</i> in Japanese) and generates a situation where, seemingly, the participants are actually talking to each other in a face-to-face manner. Experiments on collaborative drawings or remote lecturing conducted with various subjects resulted in the different groups being properly positioned in their co-existing space, thus suggesting that the co-creative activities between the groups were successfully established.

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CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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  1. co-existing space ("Ba")
  2. collaborative drawing
  3. embodied interaction
  4. inter-group communication
  5. shadow
  6. spatial relationship ("ma"- perceptive distance)

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