Memetic: An Infrastructure for Meeting Memory

  • Authors:
  • Simon Buckingham Shum;Roger Slack;Michael Daw;Ben Juby;Andrew Rowley;Michelle Bachler;Clara Mancini;Danius Michaelides;Rob Procter;David de Roure;Tim Chown;Terry Hewitt

  • Affiliations:
  • Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK;Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK;Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK;School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK;Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK;Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Cooperative Systems Design: Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations -- Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Memetic toolkit for recording the normally ephemeral interactions conducted via internet video conferencing, and making these navigable and manipulable in linear and non-linear ways. We introduce two complementary interaction visualizations: argumentation-based concept maps to elucidate the conceptual structure of the discourse using a visual language, and interactive event timelines generated from the meeting metadata. We discuss in detail the affordances of Memetic's tools, in particular the Compendium hypermedia mapping tool, and the Meeting Replay tool that renders the semantic navigation indices into the videoconference replays. Additionally, with respect to methodology and evaluation, we describe how we are engaging diverse end-user communities in the process of designing and deploying these tools.