Update on Compendium

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Simon Buckingham Shum David De Roure Marc
Eisenstadt Nigel Shadbolt Austin Tate AKT Town
Meeting, April 2003
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CoAKTinG partners (AKT subset)
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Access Grid node
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Integrating multiple modes of collaboration
awareness ofcolleagues availability/ sense of
presence
virtual meetings
mapping real time discussions/ group sensemaking
recovering information from meetings
following through decisions/coordinating
activities
synthesising artifacts

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Presence can be defined
awareness ofcolleagues availability/ sense of
presence

• as an aggregated view of an objects
  dynamically changing attributesDr. R.
  Chakraborty (Versada Networks), JabberConf 2001
• Availability (Im logged on for a
  videoconference)
• Preference (Only my boss can interrupt me now)
• Capability (My device can accept video calls)
• Location (Im in Munich urgent calls only)

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Massive/enriched presence

• Crowds massive scale as asset rather than
  liability.
• Presence visualisation stepping stone to
  scalability and enrichment of ways to convey
  presence.
• Presence semantics can help us think about more
  powerful ways to convey presence.

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BuddySpace Instant Messenger

• Lightweight radar view
• Pushed roster automatically constructed
• Custom maps
• Embeddable maps
• Jabber XML open source architecture

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BuddySpace Instant Messenging

• Your contact list pushed out to automatically
• Usual task/ geography based families of contacts
• Jabber XML open source architecture

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BuddySpace Instant Messenging

• Custom maps
• Embeddable maps
• Lightweight radar view

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BuddySpace Instant Messenging

• Presence semantics

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BuddySpace Instant Messenging

• Conference room facilities
• Voting
• countdown to meeting start
• group chat

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BuddySpace future directions

• Automatic maps GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, GSM
  cell triangulation, postcodes...
• J2ME client (e.g. Nokia 7650)
• Personal profiles interests, .plan,
  work/home/holiday locations
• Matchmaking services
• Zones of trust

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Compendium seeing what you say
mapping real time discussions/ group sensemaking

• Real time mapping of issues and ideas in meetings
• Connecting ideas visually, by sets, metadata,
  and hypertextually
• Free-form and template driven maps
• Export from Word, and out to Web/XML
• Interoperable via Jabber XML protocol

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Compendium dialogue map
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Integrating Compendium with other tools
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Integrating Compendium with other tools
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Sending Compendium nodes to a Jabber IM client
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Incoming text message to Compendium
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I-X Process Panels
following through decisions/coordinating
activities
synthesising artifacts

• The I-X tool suite supports mixed-initiative
  synthesis tasks
• An environment for handling issues, performing
  activities, placing constraints, adding
  annotations, etc.
• Well-founded based on a generic synthesis-task
  ontology ltI-N-C-Agt
• Role of I-X in CoAKTinG
• Meeting support coordinate environment start-up
  and shut-down activities issue handling and
  activity tracking during and after meeting.
• Meeting-as-synthesis model synthesis task is
  to generate results, a plan of action and an
  agenda for the next meeting.

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I-X Tools
Process Panel
Activity Editor
Domain Editor
Messenger
I-Space
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I-X targets

• To develop support for cycles of decision-making
  and activity-execution
• To provide more powerful mechanisms for shared
  issue tracking and rationale capture.
• Exploration of the complementary roles of
  Compendium and I-X.
• To explore the presence-context-activity dynamic
• To exploit information about agent capability and
  availability to populate the decision space.
• To provide context-sensitive process management.
• Exploration of the interaction of BuddySpace and
  I-Space.

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I-X progress

• Initial work focused on implementational and
  conceptual integration.
• Implementational
• Development of Jabber communication strategy.
• Display of BuddySpace presence information.
• Basic issue/activity-passing to Compendium.
• Conceptual
• Mapping to/from Compendium concepts.
• Development of meeting-as-synthesis model.
• Development of domain models for meeting support
  tasks.

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Sending Compendium nodes to an I-X panel to
coordinate asynchronous activity
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I-X future directions

• Enrich exchange of concepts between I-X and
  Compendium
• To develop and explore the complementary role of
  each in cycles of decision-making and
  activity-execution.
• Enhance links between I-Space and BuddySpace
• To move towards a heightened notion of the
  relationship between presence and activity.
• Results of both tasks should feed into the
  development of a meeting ontology
• To support deployment of the CoAKTinG support
  package in the various test-bed scenarios.

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Semantic replay/browsing of meetings
virtual meetings
recovering information from meetings

• Video stream
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user interface?

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• Jabber event stream
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• Slide event stream
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Meeting replay goals

• To enable replay of recorded and asynchronous
  meetings
• Capture and playback of audio/video alongside
  other CoAKTinG tools, slides etc.
• Ontological annotation of this material
• Targeted video-conferencing platforms
• Access Grid (multicast / mbone tools)
• H.323 clients via MCU (e.g. Netmeeting)
• Navigation using Process and Issue-based
  ontologies (via Compendium and I-X)
• Builds on work from the HyStream project

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Towards a meetings ontology
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From disconnected meeting fragments (AKT PI
NetMeeting)
recovering information from meetings
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towards integrated meeting replay/browsing
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Compendium conceptual navigation of a meeting
record
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Meeting replay future directions

• Externalisation and consolidation of meeting
  ontology and data
• Triple store
• Issues supporting temporal, dynamic, and
  distributed, resources
• Symbiosis with other ontologies and projects
• Communities of Practice (Ontocopi)
• Open Hypermedia linking agents (COHSE)
• Informing meeting mark-up and personal presence
  using Smart Spaces
• Pervasive knowledgeable devices
• Physical meets digital

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Resources
www.aktors.org/coakting

• Software releases(all in Java, and
  Jabber-interoperable)
• BuddySpace v2.1
• Compendium v1.2.1
• I-X Process Panels v2.4
• Publications
• WACE 2002 paper (see AKT papers)
• Visualizing Argumentation book (Compendium/wicked
  problems/collaborative sensemaking)