Representations of bodily interaction on networked "Lazy Susan"

In order to support a virtual community from the view-point of trust and secure feeling, a co-existing space where people feel as if they are collocated should be supported to create a communicable situation. For creating a virtual co-existing space between remote places, we develop a telecommunication system, which consists of a bodily interaction system (networked "Lazy Susan"), which includes a round, rotatable disk, the rotations of which are synchronized with the remote disk, and a video projection system, which represents remote participants and local self in one synthesized video image for sharing the tabletop at each site. This shared tabletop is promising for supporting remote collaborative work.