Principal Investigator Howard Shrobe
Co-investigator Kimberle Koile
A tool capable of quickly and effectively visualizing the content of a meeting has been long sought and widely researched. Such a tool should innocuously record the progress of a meeting and then show its content in a manner that encapsulates the format of the meeting while providing tools that facilitate in analysis.
MeetingView seeks to encapsulate these virtues by recording meetings or conversations in an intelligent space and presenting them in a way that emphasizes the time and source sensitive aspects of the information being conveyed. Bridging the EWall and Intelligent Room groups, MeetingView aims to use the rich recording resources intelligent spaces provide in order to unobtrusively gather information concerning a discussion. The future goal is for the room to be able to recognize the speaker and transcribe what he/she is saying. This information is then fed into a EWall View interface (similar to the NewsView tool) for display. Part of developing MeetingView will focus on developing a more robust EWall View tool (agent) that can be used for a larger range of applications.