- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:12:50 -0500
- To: public-wai-rd@w3.org
present
phone: Mark Hakkinen, Marja, Wendy Chisholm, Doyle Saylor, Hazel Kennedy,
Jeff Suttor
IRC: hakkinen, wendy, marja, peepo, Guadalupe
collecting info and reports of contacts from this week:
- URL for BSCW mentioned by Carlos : http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/
- message from carlos in mail archives:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-rd/2003Feb/0001.html
**action marja: look at info from carlos
- cordis http://dbs.cordis.lu/fep/FP5/FP5_PROJl_search.html
- equal research network http://www.fp.rdg.ac.uk/equal/
- MITRE responded with interest (WAC)
- Intercultural experiment responded to MH
** action wendy and marja:
talk with microsoft contacts for pointers and interest in event
- Guadalupe works in several projects funded by the
European Commission and has started to ask to some of the people there.
- http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for that cambridge project VNC
** action jonathan: try to get a VNC contact this week
discussion of next event:
- proposal: user scenarios to get everyone on the same page
- a matrix of presenters?
- would be ideal for the tool to be demoed but not required for
presentation (since many might be in early stages of research)
- collaborative issue: turn-taking. how do you make turn-taking happen
when dealing with a variety of abilities/needs?
- mark gave an example earlier about a project he is working on that
includes people speaking a variety of languages and with variety of abilities.
- real-time audio transcription?
** action jeff: post to the list info about work on real-time production of
audio transcripts.
- timed-text: help to search for keyword in a video (search
text, find timecode) gets back to intelligent meeting rooms.
identification of speaker.
- NIST smart room trying to both support transcription
and identification.
- ibm trying to transcribe speaker in a noisy room.
- people at MIT doing intelligent meeting room (Oxygen)
- typical characteristics of "smart" meeting rooms: microphones, speaker
phones, whiteboard, etc.
multimedia minutes paper from www2001:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=371920.371971
** action marja: investigate multimedia minutes
** action doyle: talk with people at WF about a collaboration matrix,
forward info to the list.
**action guadalupe: help with multimedia pointers
summary of intent of first session:
collaborative effort reflected in shared project or document and work on it
via any means (text, audio, video) to get to that shared document.
to communicate about the document/product.
e.g., document could be web application or piece of software but
collaborating via web.
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web accessibility initiative
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