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Virtual meetings have become increasingly common with modern video-conference and collaborative software. While they allow obvious savings in time and resources, current technologies add unproductive layers of protocol to the flow of communication between participants, rendering the interactions far from seamless. In this work we describe in detail Remote Proxemics, an extension of proxemics aimed at bringing the syntax of co-located proximal interactions to virtual meetings. We also describe the role of Eery Space as a shared virtual locus that results from merging multiple remote areas, where meeting participants’ are located side-by-side as if they shared the same physical location. Thus rendering Remote Proxemics possible. Results from user evaluation on the proposed presence awareness techniques suggest that our approach is effective at enhancing mutual awareness between participants and sufficient to initiate proximal exchanges regardless of their geolocation, while promoting smooth interactions between local and remote people alike.

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This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the projects TECTON-3D (PTDC/EEI-SII/3154/2012), CEDAR (PTDC/EIA-EIA/116070/2009), and by national funds through FCT with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013. Daniel Medeiros would like to thank CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil for the scholarship grant (reference 9040/13-7).

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    Maurício Sousa, Daniel Mendes, Daniel Medeiros, Alfredo Ferreira, João Madeiras Pereira & Joaquim Jorge

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University , London, United Kingdom

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  2. Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira , Funchal, Reg. Aut. da Madeira, Portugal

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Sousa, M., Mendes, D., Medeiros, D., Ferreira, A., Pereira, J.M., Jorge, J. (2016). Remote Proxemics. In: Anslow, C., Campos, P., Jorge, J. (eds) Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_4

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