Pêle-Mêle is a multiparty video communication system. Physically, it consists in a screen equipped with a video camera and connected to a small, unnoticeable computer. The screen displays first an overview of all the connected places and further a more detailed view of the places where someone is actually engaged in a communication. Each representation of a place potentially combines both live images and recorded ones showing previous activity. The layout of all the images is shared among Pêle-Mêle instances on a strict WYSIWIS basis to help users relate one to another and support gaze awareness.
Source: Gueddana, S., Roussel, N. 2006. Pêle-Mêle, a video communication system supporting a variable degree of engagement. In Proceeding of CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM, 423-426
