**** Columbia Network Research Group Seminar ****

Title:    Automated Capture and Access of Virtual Meetings in TeamSpace
Speaker:  Dr. Werner Geyer
          IBM Research
When:     Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 2 pm
Where:    Interschool Lab
          Seventh Floor, CEPSR building
          Columbia University
Host:     Prof. H. Schulzrinne

ABSTRACT

Boeing and IBM are jointly developing a framework and prototype, called
TeamSpace, to support geographically distributed, cross-company teams. 
TeamSpace is a web-based collaborative workspace system for managing
shared work processes and maintaining shared artifacts in a project. 
Since meetings are an integral part of teamwork, our initial focus was
on supporting distributed meetings as part of a larger collaborative
work process.  We are doing this by providing automated capture and
access capabilities for distributed meetings.  Captured synchronous
information is integrated with other related information in TeamSpace,
in order to help build knowledge of past team activities and make this
past knowledge more relevant to the work.  Part of our long-term
research agenda is to understand how access of captured meetings impacts
work practices through building capture services for extended authentic
use by distributed workgroups.  The current TeamSpace prototype, serving
as a testbed for our research, supports asynchronous meeting management
seamlessly integrated with capture and access of synchronous distributed
meetings.  I will talk about general design considerations in TeamSpace,
present the current TeamSpace prototype, discuss initial experiences in
using TeamSpace to capture meetings, and discuss our plans for
evaluation of the prototype.