Evaluating meeting support tools

Abstract

Many attempts are underway for developing meeting support tools, but less attention is paid to the evaluation of meetingware. This article describes the development and testing of an instrument for evaluating meeting tools. First, we specified the object of evaluation-meetings-by means of a set of input, process, and outcome factors. Then, we designed the process of evaluation, consisting of, first, the generation of meeting behavior in the form of a controlled series of meetings within the context of a project and, second, the measurement of the identified meeting factors. To measure these factors, a rating scale, questionnaires, and information flow analysis were used. Next, the instrument was tested, and the factors for successful meetings were determined in 13 projects in which four participants had to meet four times. The evaluation instrument proved to be a reliable and useful aid for the development and improvement of meeting tools.

Recognition and understanding of meetings the AMI and AMIDA projects

“…More recently, we have developed a task-based evaluation [37] that is supported by the design of the AMI corpus. As outlined above, about 70% of corpus meetings are based on a replicable design team scenario.…”

xGroupware: Supporting Collaborative Cross-Reality Environments using Multi-Agents System

“…Meetings are essential for structuring and coordinating workgroup [1]. Many different types of technology can be used to support this type of interaction, whether in face to face or at a distance.…”

Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management

“…With this in mind, the current work investigates multimodal models for predicting attitudes towards the management and direction of meeting from the AMI corpus [4] based on post-meeting ratings by meeting participants [8,17]. More specifically, we examine models which make use of linguistic content pertaining to lexical, syntactic, and psycholinguistic information derived from the transcripts, as well as speech features derived directly from the acoustic signal.…”