JP2000200237A - Method and system for automatically acquiring conferrence attendant information, and program recording medium therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a presenter to accurately grasp the state of attendants and give presentation while grasping the state by automatically acquiring information showing whether or not explanation is too fast or slow and interesting information without letting the attendants notice. SOLUTION: On a server 10, an attendant state data base 10a for storing attendnat's states is installed and operation information that the respective attendants give is stored in the data base 10a as information on interest and fast/slow speed information from computers 11 to 14 of the attendants and provided for the presenter when necessary. On each attenant's terminal, conference material reference application and display application 15 for information acquired from the server are stored.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention automatically obtains information regarding the understanding and interest of participants in an electronic presentation conference without making the participants aware of the information, and obtains such information from the presenter of the conference material or the participants. The present invention relates to a method and a system for automatically acquiring conference participant information for supporting an improvement in presentation effect by reducing the number of presentations, and a program recording medium therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional electronic presentation system, each participant can view a computer screen, which is the same screen as a computer screen used by a presenter for explanation. In other words, the system is such that the presenter's explanation screen is shared by the computer screens used by the participants. Some recent systems have been proposed in which each participant can freely refer to materials on their own screen. In this system, when the participant presses the help button or the like, the system acquires that the participant has become confused, and the fact is displayed on the screen of the presenter to inform the presenter. In a similar manner, each participant points to an interesting part of the presentation, at which point the system can obtain that information from each participant and inform the presenter or the like. In addition, the presenter feels that he may be interested based on the participants' attitude and table information,
He had the flexibility to take the time to make presentations. However, it was unclear whether he was definitely interested in that.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional electronic presentation conference, in order for the system to acquire information on the participants, it is necessary to have each participant perform an operation for that purpose. Required some attention and effort and time for operation. However, if the participant forgets the operation or intentionally skips the operation, there is a problem that the system acquisition information is incorrect. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve such a conventional problem without making participants aware of the problem.
A method and system for automatically acquiring conference room participation information, which can automatically acquire and use participant information and can give a presentation while accurately grasping the degree of understanding of the participants, and recording the program thereof It is another object of the present invention to provide a recording medium that has been designed.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a method for automatically acquiring conference room participation information according to the present invention comprises:
Meeting participants can view meeting materials using a computer connected to the network, and switch between the position of the material described by the presenter of the meeting material and the position of the material they want to see during the meeting It is possible to set up a server computer equipped with a participant status database for accumulating participant status in an electronic presentation conference where it is possible to write notes and
Automatically obtains data from each participant's computer, without making the participants aware of the operation information performed by each participant on electronically distributed meeting materials, and collectively collects information on the participant status database in real time The information can be converted into status information of each participant, and the information can be provided to the participant who needs the information at the necessary time. This allows the presenter to give a presentation while accurately grasping the degree of understanding of the participant, and when discussing after the presentation, information on where the interest of the participant is is collected in advance. This allows for targeted discussions, and even during presentations,
The presenter can respond flexibly, such as being able to intensively explain the part that the participant is interested in.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The principle and embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall view of a system for automatically acquiring conference room participation information showing the principle of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a server computer 10 includes a participant status database 10a, and is connected to a presenter computer 11 and a plurality of participant computers 12 to 14 via a network 20. These participant computers 12 to 14 store a conference material reference application program and an information display application program 15 obtained from the server 10, respectively. The participants' computers 11 to 14 allow the participants to refer to the conference material, and switch between the position of the material described by the presenter of the conference material and the position of the material desired to be viewed during the conference. You can see.

FIG. 2 is a sequence chart showing an example of message exchange between the server, the presenter's computer, and the participant's computer in FIG. In an electronic presentation meeting, if each participant does not understand the presenter's explanation,
Stay on the page (part) and try to understand the page. For this reason, a gap occurs between the page explained by the presenter and the page viewed by the participant.
Conversely, if the content of the page described by the presenter is simple and easy to understand, the participant will proceed to the next page to check or understand the next content . Again, there is a difference between the presenter and the page the participant is viewing. Here, the relative page viewed by each participant with respect to the page described by the presenter is defined as the degree of understanding. In addition, when each participant feels something interesting while listening to the explanation of the presenter, the participant makes a mark or memo on the page (part) of the material corresponding to the explanation.
Here, a participant's writing in a part of this material is regarded as the participant's interest information.

[0007] In order to acquire the degree of understanding and interest information defined as described above, it is necessary to be able to acquire the following information of each participant. Then, the system must obtain the following participant information from each participant's computer without being aware of those participants. Information on the page viewed by each participant Information on whether or not a memo has been written on the page viewed by each participant. In this embodiment, the presenter and each computer of the participant monitor the operation of each user. The server accesses the participant status database 10a of the server and accumulates the page information viewed by the participant and information on whether or not the memory has been entered in the page viewed by the participant. That is, the PC (personal computer) used by each participant monitors the operation performed by each participant on the material, and when a page is turned or written, the participant status database 10a is connected to the participant status database 10a via the network. The above information is stored. This database 10a is placed in a PC on the electronic presentation environment, acquires operation information for all participants in real time, and also retains its history. The information in the database is arranged and provided in a predetermined form according to the situation of the requester according to the request of each participant or presenter.

In FIG. 2, the participant computer A first detects that the participant has written a memo (step 41), and sends position (page) information to the participant status database 10a, thereby obtaining a DB (database). ) Is updated (step 21). Next, the presenter computer detects that the presenter has switched pages (step 31), sends the position (page) information to the DB, and updates the DB (step 22). Next, the participant computer C detects page switching (step 42), sends the position information to the DB, and updates the DB (step 23). In this way, when the page switching is detected (steps 31, 32, 35, 42, 4)
7), the DB is updated (steps 22, 23, 24,
At the same time as when the note writing is detected (steps 41, 43, 44), the DB is updated (steps 21, 25, 26). If there is an information browsing request (steps 33 and 45), the DB reads and transmits information to the applicant (steps 27 and 28). The above method, or a method similar to the method described above, automatically obtains the PC operation information of the participants and accumulates the information, so that the participants can understand and understand each participant without being conscious. Interest information can be obtained.

FIG. 3 is an operation sequence chart of the presentation navigator showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, since the understanding status of all the participants can be acquired in real time and the presenter can be notified, the understanding status of the entire participants is output based on the understanding level of each participant obtained by the system, and during the presentation. This information can be provided to presenters in real time. It should be noted that the presenter cannot perform any processing even if the page position of the material being viewed for each participant is provided. Whether you are looking at the previous page, the same page, or the previous page from the page explained by the presenter.
By notifying the number of persons or the number of persons, the corresponding processing can be performed. That is, the system can display a presentation speed adjustment system as shown at the left end of FIG.

That is, in FIG.
3 means page 1 to page 3 as position information, for example. (A) Initially, the presenter terminal detects slide 1,
The presenter gives a one-page explanation, and all participants are watching slide 1. At this time, the display of the presentation speed adjusting system is 3 which is just good, 0 for slow explanation, and 0 for fast explanation. (B) When the participant terminal B detects the slide 2 after a certain period of time, the participant terminal C also detects the slide 2 and the participant terminal A also detects the slide 2, the speed adjustment system displays Although the description is slow, the number gradually increases to 1, 2, and 3, and at the same time, the number gradually decreases to 2, 1, and 0. (C) At this time, the presenter terminal detects that the presenter who has learned that the explanation is slow has made the slide 2 faster. The display of the system at this time is 3 which is just good. (D) Next, the presenter terminal detects that the slide 3 has been accelerated, and stores it in the server. Participant terminals A, B, and C respectively detect that each participant has accelerated to slide 3,
Store on server. At this time, the display of the system is 3 which is just good. (E) Next, the presenter terminal detects that the slide 4 has been accelerated, and stores it in the server. At this time, the description is fast, but is 3. (F) Next, the participating subscriber terminal A detects the slide 4,
Further, the participant terminal C detects the slide 4, and then detects that the participant terminal B has changed to the slide 4. At this time, the display of the system is just right, but indicates that the number has increased sequentially to 1, 2, and 3.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are diagrams showing contents provided by the present system to the participant terminals, wherein FIG. 4A shows a display during a presentation, and FIG. 4B shows a display after the presentation. The system of the present embodiment acquires and provides interest information of each participant. Information on which pages of the materials each participant obtained by the system is interested in is arranged and provided according to the presentation stage. During the presentation, as shown in FIG. 7A, the presenter is provided to the presenter in real time where the interest of the participant is concentrated. It is provided in the form of the number of participants who showed interest in each page of the material, or the ratio of the number of participants. In the case of the figure, the contents of page 3 are the most interesting (4
It can be seen that the next is page 2 and page 4 (6 each). After the end of the presentation, as shown in FIG. 7B, information is provided on who is interested in each page. In the figure, it can be seen that four people who are interested in page 3 are A, B, C, and D.

The flow or sequence operation shown in FIG. 2 or 3 is converted into a conference material reference application program and / or an acquired information display application program, and the converted programs are stored in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a magnetic disk. By doing so, if the recording medium is installed and executed on an arbitrary computer, the automatic acquisition method of the conference room participation information of the present invention can be realized at an arbitrary place and at an arbitrary time.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The presenter can give a presentation while accurately grasping the level of understanding of the participant, and in the discussion scene after the presentation, information about the participant's interest is gathered in advance In addition, the presenter can conduct a focused discussion, and even during the presentation, the presenter can give a flexible presentation, for example, by intensively explaining a part where the participants are interested.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a conference room participation information automatic acquisition system showing the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence chart showing an example of message exchange between components in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a sequence chart showing an embodiment of the presentation navigator of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing examples of contents provided during and after a presentation according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 computer for server, 10a participant status database, 11 computer for presenter, 12-14
Participant computer, 15: conference material reference application program, 15: each program of information acquisition display application from server, 20: network.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Ryuichi Kado 3-19-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Japan Telegraph and Telephone Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shiiko Tamai 3-192 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo No. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation F term (reference) 5B089 GA11 GA21 JA16 JB22 LB14 5C064 AA02 AC05 AC08 AC14 AD14 AD16 5K015 AA00 AB00 JA00 JA01 JA10 5K030 GA17 HB00 HB19 JT06 KA02 KA07 LD08

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Each of the conference materials is referred to using a computer. During the conference, the position of the material described by the presenter of the conference material and the position of the material to be referred to are switched and referred to, and a memo is written on the screen. Electronic participant conference information acquisition method, wherein each participant's computer checks the page information that the participant is referring to and whether or not a note has been written on the page that the participant is referring to. Information and location information in real time in the participant status database connected to the server computer, and the server computer converts the stored information into status information for each participant. And automatically providing the converted information to a presenter or a participant who needs the converted information at a required point in time. 2. A server computer for acquiring the understanding status of all the participants in real time and informing the presenter of the understanding status, connected to the server computer via a network, and interested information or presentation of each participant. A participant computer which acquires speed information, transfers the information to the server computer, and accumulates the information, and a participant attached to the server computer, which accumulates information transferred from the participant computer. An automatic acquisition system for meeting room participation information, comprising a situation database. 3. A recording medium, wherein the method for automatically acquiring conference room participation information according to claim 1 is converted into a conference material reference application and an application for displaying acquired information from a server, and the converted application is stored. .