This paper describes MushyPeek, a experiment framework that allows us to manipulate interaction control behaviour – including turn-taking – in a setting quite similar to face-to-face human-human dialogue. The setup connects two subjects to each other over a VoIP telephone connection and simultaneuously provides each of them with an avatar representing the other. The framework is exemplified with the first experiment we tried in it – a test of the effectiveness interaction control gestures in an animated lip-synchronised talking head.