Chit-Chat Club (by Karahalios et al 2008)

The Chit-Chat Club is an experiment in bringing people together in a mixed physical and virtual environment. The service combines a café in real world with an online chat room. The "avantar" is in human scale. When online user enters the chat room, he can interact by talking and changing face emotions with other people near his avantar.

Reference: Karahalios, K., Donath, J. 2008 Scale, Form and Time: creating connected sociable spaces. Social Data Analysis Workshop CHI 2008
http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/ChitChatClub/
http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/Ginger/

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