The difficulties remote participants of distributed meetings face are widely recognized. In this paper we describe the design of an avatar-based e-meeting support tool named Olymp...
N. Sadat Shami, Li-Te Cheng, Steven L. Rohall, And...
—This paper introduces a novel contextual model for the recognition of people’s visual focus of attention (VFOA) in meetings from audio-visual perceptual cues. More specificall...
During multiparty meetings, participants can use non-verbal modalities such as hand gestures to make reference to the shared environment. Therefore, one hypothesis is that incorpo...
The problem of total participation in asynchronous meetings convened with distributed group support systems has been noted frequently but investigated rarely. This paper describes...
We address the problem of recognizing, in dynamic meetings in which people do not remain seated all the time, the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of seated people from their head...