Automating envisionment of virtual meeting room histories

  • Authors:

  • Allen Ginsberg;Sid Ahuja

  • Affiliations:

  • Multimedia Communications Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey;Multimedia Communications Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of how to automatically generate visual representations of recorded histories of distributed multimedia collaborations. The work reported here focuses mainly on what we consider to be an innovative approach to this problem, viz., the use of a temporal representation format that displays the generic meta-information associated with multimedia content in a way that lets users focus on and access the associated content of interest. As a concrete example of the use of meta-information, consider a user who would like to access any historical segments containing video of a particular collaborator. A meta-information-based approach can assist in this search by finding all the times at which the known video channel used by that person was in fact operative.In this paper we focus on elements involved in creating visual histories for meetings held in virtual meeting rooms. Besides showing how these elements can be used in laying out visual layouts for online meetings that may span days, or indeed, months in real-time. Meetings are just one aspect of collaborative work. Our ultimate goal is to expand the approach to deal with all the real and non-real time elements needed to provide users of remote collaboration environments with a sense of shared historical perspective.