Meeting central: making distributed meetings more effective

The Meeting Central prototype is a suite of collaboration tools designed to support distributed meetings. The tools' minimalist design provides only those features that have the most impact on distributed meeting effectiveness. The collaboration suite is built on top of a distributed, extensible, and scalable framework. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 [Group and Organization Interfaces]: Collaborative Computing – synchronous interaction, CSCW, organizational design. General Terms Design, Experimentation, Human Factors. Keywords Distributed meetings, audio conferencing, group communications, collaboration framework, distributed system, VoIP.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Nicole Yankelovich, William Walker, Patricia Roberts, Mike Wessler, Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Provino
• Keywords: Collaboration, CSCW 2004, Keywords Distributed Meetings, Meeting Central Prototype, Social Sciences