Agent based facilitator assistant for virtual meetings

Thompson, Phil; James, Anne; Iqbal, Rahat

doi:10.1109/cscwd.2011.5960095

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“…The focus group results were discussed in a previous paper by some of the authors [7]. An evaluation of the prototype took place following a user trial of the functions defined in the requirements.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the observations by the focus group in a previous paper by the authors [7] was that where possible software already in existence should be integrated with the system rather than re-inventing the wheel. There are many other products commercially available which give audio and visual support to both one-to-one and group communications.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…In a previous paper [7] the work performed by a focus group to determine the requirements for an intelligent virtual meeting system was discussed. Together with findings from literature search and observations, these requirements indicated the features and facilities that a virtual meeting system should provide [8,9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Virtual meeting systems able to capture and address such issues would be a welcome contribution to the field. This paper, building on the work of previous papers by the authors [7,8,9], describes the development, implementation, trialling and evaluation of a prototype virtual meeting system, V-ROOM, the requirements of which were influenced by a focus group investigation presented in the last of those papers. The requirements include a number of meeting support concepts that are not available in current meeting systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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V-ROOM: Virtual meeting system trial

Thompson

James

Nanos

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

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Virtual meeting environments are providing a viable alternative for conventional meetings bringing benefits of reduced costs and better use of time by removing the need for attendees to travel to national, international or global locations in order to attend meetings. This paper builds on the work of previous papers which discussed the functional and technical requirements for a virtual meeting system, reporting on a user trial and evaluating the prototype system. The trial was performed by students as users deploying the prototype for collaboration in group work focussed on the design of a computer system as part of the final year of their undergraduate study. The users were asked to comment on the features of the prototype as well as offering suggestions on useful features that should be included in a virtual meeting system. A summary of their comments and suggestions and the results of the evaluation are included in the paper. Security aspects of virtual meeting systems are also considered in some detail.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: B Suggested Additional Featuresmentioning

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Section: Related Work and Innovative Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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V-ROOM: Virtual meeting system trial

Thompson

James

Nanos

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

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“…Initially an agent based system was developed to test novel architecture and communication concepts (Thompson, James and Stanciu 2010). Then a focus group was established to determine the features that a virtual meeting system should include (Thompson, James and Iqbal 2011). In order to develop the system, our investigation focused on understanding the role of the facilitator and evaluating the possible features that would facilitate a virtual meeting session.…”

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V-ROOM: a virtual meeting system with intelligent structured summarisation

James

Nanos

Thompson

2015

Enterprise Information Systems

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With the growth of virtual organisations and multinational companies, virtual collaboration tasks are becoming more important for employees. This paper describes the development of a virtual meeting system, called V-ROOM. An exploration of facilities required in such a system has been conducted. The findings highlighted that intelligent systems are needed, especially since information that individuals have to know and process, is vast. The survey results showed that meeting summarisation is one of the most important new features that should be added to virtual meeting systems for enterprises. This paper highlights the innovative methods employed in V-ROOM to produce relevant meeting summaries. V-ROOM's approach is compared to other methods from the literature and it is shown how the use of meta-data provided by parts of the V-ROOM system can improve the quality of summaries produced.

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