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As instant messengers become popular, presence information also becomes useful information for casual interaction among a group. We propose a new method to visualize presence information using live camera images. Our new method uses live camera images as a basis for representing virtual shared space for a small community. Presence information - activities of users - is visualized as ’smokes’ and effect lines, and superimposed at the seat of each member in the room, which makes easy to understand the mapping between presence information and the corresponding members.
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