2014 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 77-86
As one of the communication support system in distant collaborative work, we are focusing on how to control external interruptions to the participants during the meeting. In this paper, we have proposed a meeting states display system to identify states of the meeting to get automatically the physical states of participants and to notify the distributed colleagues. The system mainly has the features that it can identify the state of the person you want to contact and determine the statues of meeting based on the relative states of the other participants. Our experimental results indicate the following effects. 1) The function to capture the physical states of the interrupted participant him/herself and to notify the states to distributed colleagues could be useful to reduce the number of external interruptions during the meeting. 2) Although the function to determine the statues of meeting based on the relative states of the other participants could not be helpful to reduce the number of interruptions, it could give effect to the subjective evaluation.
