The EMMA System: Enabling Novel User Interfaces to Integrated Conferencing Systems
September 2004
Lisa D. Harper, The MITRE Corporation
Abigail S. Gertner, The MITRE Corporation
Paul M. Herceg, The MITRE Corporation
Thomas T. Hines, The MITRE Corporation
Edwin H. Kemon, The MITRE Corporation
David E. Mireles, The MITRE Corporation
Michael E. Shadid, The MITRE Corporation
James A. Van Guilder, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
We discuss the infrastructure and design of an experimental
conference room designed for the purpose of integrating
emergent technologies in an operational setting. This
system is a replica of standard corporate conference
facilities at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia.
Our environment is currently used by a small number of
volunteer participants in order for us to accommodate user
input early and frequently in the development cycle. Most
commercial conference facilities rely on interfaces
designed and built by hardware vendors or system
integrators. We have created an abstraction and interface to
our facility's controller that enables the development of
new kinds of room interfaces. We describe our system
EMMA and also user interface development for this
system.
Additional Search Keywords
Smart Room, VTC, User Interfaces, Dialogue, Multimodal, Infrastructure, Intelligent Assistant, Context-aware
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