Comado: Communication System for Ambient Connection between Distance Locations

Current video call systems can facilitate formal conversation, yet they lack the ability to provide users with an informal sense of presence. To this end, we propose Comado, a communication system that creates an ambient connection using online interactive haptic sharing. Outside of face-to-face communication, Comado provides haptic feedback to the desk to convey a sense of presence. From preliminary results, we plan to further improve the design of Comado to be deployed in the wild.