Visualization of Multi-sensory Meeting Information to Support Awareness

Awareness of shared work activities is important for fostering professional relationships. This paper introduces visualization techniques for a meeting support system based on automatic speech recognition and multisensory meeting information capture, including voice levels and participant comments. The system has been deployed in live meetings over the past 5 months and we report meeting participants’ expectations and findings from a field study. Initial findings suggest that the proposed approach can facilitate awareness without the need for detailed meeting transcriptions and associated audio recordings, however the quality of speech recognition results and their effective visualization remain critical factors for increased adoption.