The terminal is connected to other terminals via a server. The terminal’s infrared and ultrasonic sensors detect a person’s presence and motion. The detected cue information (the presence and motion) is transmitted to a predesignated terminal via the server. The terminal at the receiver side presents the received information. Optical fibers at the top of the terminal will gleam to indicate the remote human presence and will rotate to indicate the remote human motion. The terminal also has three touch sensors. Touching a terminal causes the receiver’s terminal to emit three kinds of sound.
Source: Itoh, Y., Miyajima, A., and Watanabe, T. 2002. ‘TSUNAGARI’ communication. In Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’02). ACM Press, 810–811.
