Principal Investigator Howard Shrobe
Co-investigator Kimberle Koile
In collaboration with the Design Rationale Group (DRG) we are working on a system for capturing and indexing software design meetings. The system combines our work on meeting facilitation and capture with DRG's work on Tahuti, a system for understanding hand-drawn UML sketches.
During software design meetings, designers sketch object-oriented software tools, including new agent-based technologies for the Intelligent Room, by sketching UML-type designs on a white-board. To capture the design meeting history, our meeting capture system uses available audio, video, and screen capture services to capture the entire design meeting. However, finding a particular moment of the design history video and audio records can be cumbersome without a proper indexing scheme. To detect, index, and timestamp significant events in the design process, Tahuti records, recognizes, and understands the UML-type sketches drawn during the meeting. These timestamps can be mapped to particular moments in the captured video and audio, aiding in the retrieval of the captured information.