The on-going research project described in this paper was originally planned to identify the influence of video communication tools such as web camera-equipped PC on daily communication among friends and family. First, a questionnaire was conducted to approximately one hundred informants who have one or more family member(s) living away from home. Based on the results, four factors were derived from factor analysis that relatively well described the communication among remote family members. They are named as "Frequency of communication", "Willingness to communicate", "Consciousness of existence" and "Depth of communication." Based on those factors, the entire samples were classified into four groups to represent the tendency for communication among the family. Next, two three-week diary surveys and interviews following the questionnaire survey were conducted. The influence of a new communication tool, in this case "Skype on PC with web-camera" on the daily communication was examined. Two informants groups were chosen for this survey: two sisters around 40s and two close female friends in their 20s. As a result of the surveys, followings are revealed: 1) Introducing web-camera equipped Skype to their daily communication was welcomed and well used during the experimental periods, 2) The analysis on the diaries and followed interviews suggest that a new communication with web camera does not drastically change the existing daily communication, 3) The family relationship among the informants or "cohesion" and tendency to use "new tools" seems to strongly affect the tendency of implementing the video-equipped Skype and to daily communication, and 4) In the case of web camera-equipped Skype, "feel of presence" was a key characteristic that affected the informants' "context of use." Further dairy surveys among various informants are planned to investigate the relation of "cohesion" between family members of the informants and "context of use" of the camera-equipped communication tools. © 2008 IADIS.