Communications interface and a communications method, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding registration medium

A system comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and configured by the instructions to generate a communications interface which can be used simultaneously by remote participants each having a respective display screen,
• said interface including a two-dimensional virtual space and two-dimensional graphical avatars respectively associated with each of said participants, each graphical avatar being movable in said virtual space, said virtual space and said graphical avatars being displayed on said display screens,
• said communications interface also including a controller enabling each of the participants to control the movements of their respective graphical avatars within said virtual space,
• wherein discussion channels are automatically set up between at least two of said participants represented by two respective graphical avatars, when said two graphical avatars are close enough together to form a dynamic discussion group, setting up said discussion channels enabling said participants to converse with each other, in real time, by audio-video communication,
• wherein said communication interface enables each participant to engage another participant directly by selecting, on the screen the graphical avatar of the other participant in question so as to cause a writing text field to appear that makes it possible to send an individual message to that participant regardless of the positioning of the graphical avatars in question.

A system comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and configured by the instructions to generate a communications interface which can be used simultaneously by remote participants each having a respective display screen,
• said interface including a two-dimensional virtual space and two-dimensional graphical avatars respectively associated with each of said participants, each graphical avatar being movable in said virtual space, said virtual space and said graphical avatars being displayed on said display screens,
• said communications interface also including a controller enabling each of the participants to control the movements of their respective graphical avatars within said virtual space,
• wherein discussion channels are automatically set up between at least two of said, participants represented by two respective graphical avatars, when said two graphical avatars are close enough together to form a dynamic discussion group, setting up said discussion channels enabling said participants to converse with each other, in real time, by audio-video communication,
• wherein said communications interface displays on or around each graphical avatar the communications capacities of the participant represented by said graphical avatar.

A system comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and configured by the instructions to generate a communications interface which can be used simultaneously by remote participants each having a respective display screen,
• said interface including a two-dimensional virtual space and two-dimensional graphical avatars respectively associated with each of said participants, each graphical avatar being movable in said virtual space, said virtual space and said graphical avatars being displayed on said display screens,
• said communications interface also including a controller enabling each of the participants to control the movements of their respective graphical avatars within said virtual space,
• wherein discussion channels are automatically set up between at least two of said participants represented by two respective graphical avatars, when said two graphical avatars are close enough together to form a dynamic discussion group, setting up said discussion channels enabling said participants to converse with each other, in real time, by audio-video communication, with a video window automatically popping up in the graphical avatar of each participant in question.