"Family Story Play is a system that supports grandparents to read books together with their grandchildren over the Internet. The Story Play project is designed to improve communication across generations and over a distance, and to support parents and grandparents in fostering the literacy development of young children."
Reference:
http://research.nokia.com/page/9341
Raffle, H. et al. 2010 Family Story Play: Reading with Young Children (and Elmo) Over a Distance. In CHI 2010