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Tse, E. and Greenberg, S. (2005)
Supporting Lightweight Customization for Meeting Environments. Research report 2005-784-15, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April. Paper and video, video report, duration 4:34.
Type: Public research report (paper and video).
Abstract.
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 material being developed) but authoring tools as well – the usual controls, palettes, and menus. Attendees are distracted when the author navigates the (usually complex) interface as part of the authoring process the tools themselves 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 customization a socially unacceptable practice.
In this paper, we present the solution of lightweight customization, a customization technique designed to minimize time and cognitive effort. This paper illustrates lightweight customization through two implementations: First, customized views provide a scribe with full application functionality while presenting the important presentation content to the other meeting collaborators on a secondary projected display. Second, customized interfaces allow meeting collaborators to rapidly recall previous functionality and build customized interfaces through a history of previous actions.
Keywords: Lightweight History Customization, Custom-ized Views, Microsoft Office.