The AMIDA Mobile Meeting Assistant: Remote Meeting Attendance Using a Smart Phone

The AMIDA Mobile Meeting Assistant is a system that al- lows remote participants to attend a meeting through a mo- bile device. The system improves the engagement into the meeting of the remote participants with respect to voice- only solutions thanks to the use of visual annotations and the capture of slides. The visual focus of attention of meet- ing participants and other annotations serve to reconstruct a 2D or a 3D representation of the meeting on a mobile de- vice (smart phone). A rst version of the system has been implemented, and feedback from a user study and from in- dustrial partners shows that the Mobile Meeting Assistant's functionalities are positively appreciated, and sets priorities on future developments.