1999 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 377-387
In this paper, we pay attention to the human action and describe a way to solve the gap problem between the real world and the virtual space. We try to support high quality communication among the members and provide triggers for informal communication by letting the avator have gestures for the member's information in a virtual space. First of all, by applying the spotting recognition of gestures from time-varying image, the avator reflects user's state and action. Secondly, we pay attention to a handshake and realize "virtual handshake device" for the way to make users feel virtual action. We have build these systems on a virtual office system named "Valentine" that we have built before.