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Towards a Smarter Meeting Record—Capture and Access of Meetings Revisited

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Multimedia records of meetings contain a rich amount of project information. However, finding detailed information in a meeting record can be difficult because there is no structural information other than time to aid navigation. In this paper we survey and discuss various ways of indexing meeting records by categorizing existing approaches along multiple dimensions. We then introduce the notion of creating indices based upon user interaction with domain-specific artifacts. As an example to illustrate the use of domain-specific artifacts to create meaningful pointers into the meeting record, we describe capture and access in a prototype system that supports general meeting artifacts.

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    Present address: Department of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA

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Werner Geyer is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Collaborative User Experience Group (CUE). He is leading research projects in the areas of activity-centric collaboration, ad hoc collaboration, and virtual meetings. His research focuses on the intersections of egocentric vs. public, informal vs. formal, unstructured vs. structured types of collaboration. Before joining CUE, Werner was a Post Doc at IBM Research in New York where he worked on new web-based team support technologies and on capture and access of distributed meetings. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He also earned a M.S. in Information Technology, which combines Computer Science and Business Administration, from the University of Mannheim.

Heather Richter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005, and her B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1995. Her research interests are in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing, and Software Engineering.

Gregory D. Abowd is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He leads the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group in examining issues involved in building and evaluating ubiquitous computing applications that impact our everyday lives. Dr. Abowd initiated, and now co-directs, the Aware Home Research Initiative at Georgia Tech. He is an Associate Editor for the Human Computer Interaction Journal and the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. He received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame and the degrees of M.Sc. in 1987 and D.Phil in 1991 in Computation from Oxford University.

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Geyer, W., Richter, H. & Abowd, G.D. Towards a Smarter Meeting Record—Capture and Access of Meetings Revisited. Multimed Tools Appl 27, 393–410 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-005-3815-0

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