GVU Technical Report Number: GIT-GVU-01-06

Title: Integrating Meeting Capture within a Collaborative Team Environment

Authors: Heather Richter, Gregory D. Abowd, Werner Beyer and Shshrokh Daijavad (of IBM T. J. Watson)
Ludwin Fuchs, Steven Poltrock (of Boeing Mathematics & Computing Technology)

Abstract:
Meeting capture has been a common subject of research in the ubiquitous computing community for the past decade. However, the majority of the research has focused on technologies to support the capture and not enough on the motivation for accessing the captured record and the impact on everyday work practices based on extended authentic use of a working capture and access system. Our long-term research agenda is to build capture services for distributed workgroups that provide approximate motivation and further understand how access of captured meetings impacts work practices. To do this, we have developed a testbed for meeting capture as part of a larger distributed work system called TeamSpace. In this paper, we discuss the requirements for meeting capture within TeamSpace, describe the initial prototype developed, and report on initial usage.

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