Simon Buckingham ShumDavid De RoureMarc Eisenstadt

Nigel ShadboltAustin Tate

AKT Town Meeting, April 2003

CoAKTinG partners (AKT subset)

Access Grid node

Integrating multiple modes of collaboration

mapping real time discussions/ group

sensemaking

following through decisions/coordinating activities

synthesising artifacts

recovering information from meetings

awareness ofcolleagues’

availability/ sense of ‘presence’virtual meetings

‘Presence’ can be defined

… as an aggregated view of an [object]’s dynamically changing attributesDr. R. Chakraborty (Versada Networks), JabberConf 2001

Availability (“I’m logged on for a videoconference”) Preference (“Only my boss can interrupt me now”) Capability (“My device can accept video calls”) Location (“I’m in Munich… urgent calls only”)

awareness ofcolleagues’

availability/ sense of ‘presence’

Enriched presence

Presence visualisation: stepping stone to scalability and enrichment of ways to convey presence.

Presence semantics can help us think about more powerful ways to convey presence.

Groupbroadcast

BuddySpace Instant Messaging

Your contact list pushed out to automatically

Usual task/ geography based families of contacts

Jabber XML open source architecture

BuddySpace Instant Messaging

Custom maps Embeddable maps Lightweight ‘radar

view’

BuddySpace Instant Messaging

Presence semantics

BuddySpace Instant Messaging

Conference room facilities:

Voting countdown

to meeting start

group chat

BuddySpace future directions

Automatic maps: GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, GSM cell triangulation, postcodes...

J2ME client (e.g. Nokia 7650) Personal profiles: interests, ‘.plan’,

work/home/holiday locations Matchmaking services Zones of trust

Compendium: ‘seeing what you say’

Real time mapping of issues and ideas in meetings

Connecting ideas: visually, by sets, metadata, and hypertextually

Free-form and template driven maps Export from Word, and out to Web/XML Interoperable via Jabber XML protocol

mapping real time discussions/ group

sensemaking

Compendium dialogue map

Sending Compendium nodes to a Jabber IM client

Incoming text message to Compendium

I-X Process Panels The I-X tool suite proides an environment for

handling issues, performing activities, placing constraints, adding annotations, etc.

Based on a synthesis-task ontology <I-N-C-A> Role of I-X in CoAKTinG:

Meeting support: issue handling and activity tracking during and after meeting.

following through decisions/coordinating activities

synthesising artifacts

I-X ToolsProcess Panel

Domain Editor

Activity Editor

Messenger

I-Space

I-X progress

Implementational: Development of Jabber communication strategy. Display of BuddySpace presence information. Basic issue/activity-passing to Compendium.

Conceptual: Mapping to/from Compendium concepts. Development of ‘meeting-as-synthesis’ model. Development of domain models for meeting

support tasks.

Sending Compendium nodes to an I-X panel to

coordinate asynchronous activity

I-X future directions

Enrich exchange of concepts between I-X and Compendium

Enhance links between I-Space and BuddySpace

Results of both tasks should feed into the development of a ‘meeting ontology’: To support deployment of the CoAKTinG support

‘package’ in the various testbed scenarios.

Towards a meetings ontology

virtual meetings

Semantic replay/browsing of meetings… Video stream <event> <event> <event> …

Speech event stream <event> <event> <event> …

Jabber event stream <event> <event> <event> …

Slide event stream <event> <event> <event> …

Compendium event stream <event> <event> <event> …

How to integrate into a coherent meeting replay user interface?

recovering information from meetings

Application event stream <event> <event> <event> …

Meeting replay goals

To deliver tools to capture and flexibly replay virtual meetings

Targeted video-conferencing platforms Access Grid (multicast / mbone tools) H.323 clients via MCU (e.g. Netmeeting)

Builds on work from the HyStream project on annotated media streams

Ontological annotation of this material

Enabling for instance… Capture and playback of audio/video alongside other

CoAKTinG tools, slides etc. Navigation using Process and Issue-based ontologies

(via Compendium and I-X)

mapping real time discussions/ group

sensemaking

following through decisions/coordinating activities

synthesising artifacts

recovering information from meetings

awareness ofcolleagues’

availability/ sense of ‘presence’virtual meetings

From disconnected meeting fragments… (AKT PI NetMeeting, March 2003)

recovering information from meetings

NetMeeting

BuddySpace

Compendium

I-X Process panels

…towards integrated meeting replay/browsing

Compendium conceptual navigation of a meeting record

Meeting replay future directions

Externalisation and consolidation of meeting ontology and data Triple store

Issues supporting temporal, dynamic, and distributed, resources

Symbiosis with other ontologies and projects Communities of Practice (ONTOCOPI) Open Hypermedia linking agents (COHSE)

Augmenting meeting mark-up and personal presence using Smart Spaces Pervasive knowledgeable devices Physical meets digital

Resources Software releases

(all in Java, and Jabber-interoperable) BuddySpace v2.1 Compendium v1.2.1 I-X Process Panels v2.4

Publications WACE 2002 paper (see AKT papers)

Visualizing Argumentation book (Compendium/wicked problems/collaborative sensemaking)

www.aktors.org/coakting