Building digital project rooms for web meetings

Abstract

Distributed teams must co-ordinate a variety of tasks. To do so they need to be able to create, share, and annotate documents as well as discuss plans and goals. Many workflow tools support document sharing, while other tools support videoconferencing. However, there exists little support for connecting the two. In this work, we describe a system that allows users to share and markup content during web meetings. This shared content can provide important conversational props within the context of a meeting; it can also help users review archived meetings. Users can also extract content from meetings directly into their personal notes or other workflow tools.