A communication system, comprising: a touch screen display device having a touch sensitive display screen; a first camera mounted to a first longitudinal side of the touch screen display device and having a horizontal field of view in excess of 90 degrees and centered along a line that is offset from a longitudinal axis of the touch screen display device, toward the touch screen display device, by an angle alpha, the angle alpha being less than 90 degrees; a second camera mounted to a second longitudinal side of the touch screen display device and having a horizontal field of view in excess of 90 degrees and centered along a line that is offset from a longitudinal axis of the touch screen display device, toward the touch screen display device, by an angle alpha, the angle alpha being less than 90 degrees; and a conferencing subsystem that controls conferencing communication with a remote system to send touch screen display signals indicative of user interactions with the touch screen display device to the remote system and to receive and display incoming video images from the remote system, and a camera control component configured to automatically select one of the first and second camera closest to a location where a user touches the touch sensitive display screen of the touch screen display device as the active camera to provide outgoing video during the conference; characterized in that the first and second camera are mounted to the touch screen display device so at least one of the fields of view for the first and second camera captures an image located as close to the touch sensitive display device as distance d, the distance d being 25,4-35,56 cm (10-14 inches), along an entire longitudinal length of a display screen on the touch sensitive display device. a touch screen display device having a touch sensitive display screen; a first camera mounted to a first longitudinal side of the touch screen display device and having a horizontal field of view in excess of 90 degrees and centered along a line that is offset from a longitudinal axis of the touch screen display device, toward the touch screen display device, by an angle alpha, the angle alpha being less than 90 degrees; a second camera mounted to a second longitudinal side of the touch screen display device and having a horizontal field of view in excess of 90 degrees and centered along a line that is offset from a longitudinal axis of the touch screen display device, toward the touch screen display device, by an angle alpha, the angle alpha being less than 90 degrees; and a conferencing subsystem that controls conferencing communication with a remote system to send touch screen display signals indicative of user interactions with the touch screen display device to the remote system and to receive and display incoming video images from the remote system, and a camera control component configured to automatically select one of the first and second camera closest to a location where a user touches the touch sensitive display screen of the touch screen display device as the active camera to provide outgoing video during the conference; characterized in that the first and second camera are mounted to the touch screen display device so at least one of the fields of view for the first and second camera captures an image located as close to the touch sensitive display device as distance d, the distance d being 25,4-35,56 cm (10-14 inches), along an entire longitudinal length of a display screen on the touch sensitive display device.