Video conferencing as a technology to support group work: a review of its failures
CSCW '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
The VideoWindow system in informal communication
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Experiences in the use of a media space
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
VideoWhiteboard: video shadows to support remote collaboration
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Realizing a video environment: EuroPARC's RAVE system
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Iterative design of video communication systems
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment
Communications of the ACM
Integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Montage: providing teleproximity for distributed groups
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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interactions
ACM SIGGRAPH 98 Electronic art and animation catalog
HyperMirror: toward pleasant-to-use video mediated communication system
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
VIDEOPLACE—an artificial reality
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mediascape: A Web-Based Media Space
IEEE MultiMedia
Exploring New Uses of Video with VideoSpace
EHCI '01 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP International Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction
Integrated Person Tracking Using Stereo, Color, and Pattern Detection
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Experiences of using wearable computers for ambient telepresence and remote interaction
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMM workshop on Effective telepresence
Using distance as an interface in a video communication system
IHM 2003 Proceedings of the 15th French-speaking conference on human-computer interaction on 15eme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine
Movable cameras enhance social telepresence in media spaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Remote gesture visualization for efficient distant collaboration using collocated shared interfaces
IASTED-HCI '07 Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Zoom cameras and movable displays enhance social telepresence
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ambient pre-communication: a study of voice volume control method on telecommunication
Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life
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Over the last forty years, a number of audiovisual systems have been proposed to allow people to communicate over distance. However, although these systems have greatly improved in their ability to support formal meetings, they are still hardly usable for the informal discussions that take place before and after the meeting or during breaks. This paper presents the well, a group communication device that combines audio and video links with an original design to support teleconviviality, the emergence of a relaxed atmosphere well adapted to distributed informal communication. The well is not intended to replace existing video-conferencing systems, but rather to supplement them as a solution to the informal communication problem. After introducing some related work, we provide an overview of the design concept of the well. We then present some details about its hardware configuration and the video compositing software it uses. Finally, we discuss some lessons learned from this work and conclude with directions for future research.