V-ROOM: a virtual meeting system with intelligent structured summarisation

Abstract

With the growth of virtual organisations and multinational companies, virtual collaboration tasks are becoming more important for employees. This paper describes the development of a virtual meeting system, called V-ROOM. An exploration of facilities required in such a system has been conducted. The findings highlighted that intelligent systems are needed, especially since information that individuals have to know and process, is vast. The survey results showed that meeting summarisation is one of the most important new features that should be added to virtual meeting systems for enterprises. This paper highlights the innovative methods employed in V-ROOM to produce relevant meeting summaries. V-ROOM's approach is compared to other methods from the literature and it is shown how the use of meta-data provided by parts of the V-ROOM system can improve the quality of summaries produced.

Content summarisation of conversation in the context of virtual meetings: An enhanced TextRank approach

“…VRoom uses an underlying model to categorise the types of utterances that typically form part of a meeting structure. At the top level the concept of meeting for summarisation purposes is broken down into three main objects: Agenda; Role; and Transcript [23]. These objects are further broken down.…”

Comprehending products with mixed reality

“…6 Therefore, augmented reality (AR) is developing very quickly in recent years. Before the popularity of VR, virtual collaboration tasks were becoming more significant for employees in commercial global enterprises or companies, and a virtual meeting system called V-ROOM 7 was developed to exchange and process instant metadata and information via the virtual environment. 8 The proposed V-ROOM system integrated with an intelligent system and meeting summarization feature can improve the quality of summaries produced in the virtual meeting.…”