A conversation support system and a conversation support method for
providing a realtime communications environment in which a plurality of
users simultaneously participate in a virtual world built and provided on
a computer network for realtime talking. A shared virtual space
accommodates remote communications infrastructures such as mobile
telephone, PHS, and public telephone. Avatars can have a talk with each
other by use of these infrastructures regardless of the locations of the
communicating avatars, namely regardless of whether each avatar is inside
or outside its aura. Namely, the avatars can communicate each other
beyond a single shared virtual world. The PHS owned by each avatar can
communicate with any PHS in another virtual world or even in the real
world.