Current Approaches

There has been increasing interest in recording and annotating meetings for post-hoc review. Typically, a rich meeting record is formed from multichannel audio and video recordings, along with whiteboard markings, personal notes and presented slides. These records are then supplemented with automatically derived data such as a speech transcript, emotions, and gestures. This media rich meeting representation is then presented to user via a meeting browser. This paper examines the current state of meeting browsers and organises browsers according to the types of data that they typically focus on. Following this current meeting browsers are critiqued and areas for future research are discussed.

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