Meetings and meeting modeling in smart environment

Authors: Anton Nijholt Rieks op den Akker Dirk Heylen

Publish Date: 2005/08/20

Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-220

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Abstract

In this paper we survey our research on smart meeting rooms and its relevance for augmented reality meeting support and virtual reality generation of meetings in real time or offline The research reported here forms part of the European 5th and 6th framework programme projects multimodal meeting manager M4 and augmented multiparty interaction AMI Both projects aim at building a smart meeting environment that is able to collect multimodal captures of the activities and discussions in a meeting room with the aim to use this information as input to tools that allow realtime support browsing retrieval and summarization of meetings Our aim is to research semantic representations of what takes place during meetings in order to allow generation eg in virtual reality of meeting activities discussions presentations voting etc Being able to do so also allows us to look at tools that provide support during a meeting and at tools that allow those not able to be physically present during a meeting to take part in a virtual way This may lead to situations where the differences between real meeting participants humancontrolled virtual participants and semi autonomous virtual participants disappear

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