Supporting Lightweight Customization for Meeting Environments
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2005-04-29
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Digital wall-sized displays commonly support authoring and
presentation in face to face meetings. Yet most meeting applications show not
only meeting content (i.e., the mate-rial being developed) but authoring tools
as well the usual controls, palettes, and menus. Attendees are dis-tracted
when the author navigates the (usually complex) interface as part of the
authoring process the tools them-selves unnecessarily clutter the display. The
problem is that current customization techniques are not suited for meeting
environments as complex customization interfaces take attention away from the
meeting agenda thus making cus-tomization a socially unacceptable practice. In
this paper, we present the solution of lightweight cus-tomization, a
customization technique designed to mini-mize time and cognitive effort. This
paper illustrates lightweight customization through two implementations:
First, customized views provide a scribe with full applica-tion functionality
while presenting the important presenta-tion content to the other meeting
collaborators on a secon-dary projected display. Second, customized interfaces
al-low meeting collaborators to rapidly recall previous func-tionality and
build customized interfaces through a history of previous actions.
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