Abstract
To meet strong requirements on communication tools in our daily lives, several services are currently available to support multi-media communication via he Internet. Although those services are convenient and some of the requirements are satisfied, such a system as would share the 3D shape contents in an interactive manner has not been reported so far. This paper presents a collaborative communication tool called FLAVA system, which makes it possible to communicate each other while participants perform shape manipulation on the shared objects in an interactive manner. The paper describes the basic system architecture and primitive modules of FLAVA system, and presents the idea of voice communication module to support shape manipulation in a collaborative work. The paper also covers implementation issues of the module.
