HMI/Human Media Interaction: ShowCases Virtual Meeting Room

This page contains a demonstration of our Virtual Meeting Room and some of the possible applications.

Some themes present in this work are :

These three movies show the current status of the VMR.

The first movie shows the basic idea of a 3D virtual meeting room wherein the user can e.g. follow a meeting via several viewpoints and alter some of the visible components, such as addressee annotations and speaking time percentage.

This movie shows the VMR as an application for remote meeting participation. The participants are observed at their remote site and their gestures are replayed in the VMR on one of the avatars. The avatars represent this way a participant. In a next edition a headmounted display on the remote locations will give the participants a real sense of presence in the virtual meeting, as the viewpoint can be placed exactly in the avatars eyes.

Here the VMR is shown in a meeting browser application that is able to replay a meeting using NXT annotations. In the near future the idea lives to extend the browser with a query interface.

D. Reidsma, D.K.J. Heylen and R.J.F. Ordelman Affect in Meeting Interaction, Poster at MLMI 2005, Edinburgh, Schotland, July 12 2005, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [jpg]

R.J. Rienks Meetings, how can we see, learn and act, Talk, invited CWI, Amsterdam, April 11 2006, 2006 [ BiBTeX ]

R.W. Poppe, D.K.J. Heylen, A. Nijholt and M. Poel Towards real-time body pose estimation for presenters in meeting environments, in Proceedings of the International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2005 (WSCG'2005), Science Press, ISBN 80-903100-9-5, pp. 41-44, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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D. Reidsma, H.J.A. op den Akker, R.J. Rienks, R.W. Poppe, A. Nijholt, D.K.J. Heylen and J. Zwiers Virtual Meeting Rooms: From Observation to Simulation, in Proceedings Social Intelligence Design 2005, R. Fruchter (eds), Stanford University, pp. 15, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks, R.W. Poppe, A. Nijholt, D.K.J. Heylen and N. Jovanovic Multi-party Interaction in a Virtual Meeting Room, in Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2005, the 5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, L.P.J.J. Noldus, F. Grieco, L.W.S. Loijens and P.H. Zimmerman (eds), Noldus Information Technology, Wageningen, ISBN 90-74821-71-5, pp. 141-144, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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E.M.A.G. van Dijk, A. Nijholt and D.K.J. Heylen Annotating and measuring meeting behavior, in Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2005, the 5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, L.P.J.J. Noldus, F. Grieco, L.W.S. Loijens and P.H. Zimmerman (eds), Noldus Information Technology, Wageningen, ISBN 90-74821-71-5, pp. 135-136, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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A. Nijholt Meetings in the Virtuality Continuum: Send Your Avatar, in Proceedings 2005 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS, Singapore, A. Sourin (eds), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-2378-1, pp. 75-82, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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A. Nijholt, J. Zwiers and J. Peciva The Distributed Virtual Meeting Room Exercise, in Proceedings ICMI 2005 Workshop on Multimodal multiparty meeting processing, Trento, Italy, A. Vinciarelli and J-M. Odobez (eds), ISBN not assigned, pp. 93-99, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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A. Nijholt, H. van Welbergen and J. Zwiers Introducing an Embodied Virtual Presenter Agent in a Virtual Meeting Room, in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2005), Innsbruck, Austria, M.H. Hamza (eds), Acta Press, ISBN 0-88986-459-4, pp. 579-584, 2005 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks, A. Nijholt and D. Reidsma Meetings and Meeting Support in Ambient Intelligence, pp. 359-378. In Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking and Ubiquitous Computing, Th.A. Vasilakos and W. Pedrycz (eds), Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, ISBN 1-58053-963-7, 2006 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks, Dong Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez and W. Post Detection and Application of Influence Rankings in Small Group Meetings, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI’06), F. Kwek (eds), ACM Press, New York, ISBN 1-59593-541-X, pp. 257-264, 2006 [ BiBTeX ] [

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N. Jovanovic, H.J.A. op den Akker and A. Nijholt Addressee Identification In Face-to-Face Meetings, in Proceedings of 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL), D. McCarthy and S. Wintner (eds), Association for Computational Linguistics, Pennsylvania, USA, ISBN 1-932432-59-0, pp. 169-176, 2006 [ BiBTeX ] [

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A. Nijholt, J. Zwiers and J. Peciva Mixed reality participants in smart meeting rooms and smart home enviroments, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13(1):85-94, ISSN 1617-4909, 2009 [ BiBTeX ] [

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D. Reidsma, H.J.A. op den Akker, R.J. Rienks, R.W. Poppe, A. Nijholt, D.K.J. Heylen and J. Zwiers Virtual Meeting Rooms: From Observation to Simulation, AI and Society, R. Fruchter, T. Nishida and D. Rosenberg (eds), 22(2):133-144, ISSN 0951-5666, 2007 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks, A. Nijholt and P. Barthelmess Pro-active Meeting Assistants: Attention Please!, AI and Society, A. Miura and N. Matsumura (eds), 23(2):213-231, ISSN 0951-5666, 2009 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks Meetings in smart environments. Implications of progressing technology, PhD Thesis, University of Twente, July 11 2007, ISSN 1381-3617, ISBN 978-90-365-2533-6, Pages: 201, Promotors: A. Nijholt, Ass. Promotors: D.K.J. Heylen, 2007 [ BiBTeX ] [

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R.J. Rienks, A. Nijholt and D.K.J. Heylen Verbal behavior of the more and the less influential meeting participant, in Proceedings Workshop on Tagging, Mining and Retrieval of Human Related Activity Information, P. Barthelmess and E. Kaiser (eds), ACM, New York, ISBN 978-1-59593-870-1, pp. 2-9, 2007 [ BiBTeX ] [

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Former HMI-members:

Rutger Rienks

AMI [Augmented Multi-party Interaction]

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