JP3598460B2 - Method and system for automatically acquiring conference room participation information, and program recording medium therefor - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a presentation by automatically acquiring information on the understanding and interest of participants in an electronic presentation conference without making the participants aware of the information, and returning the information to the presenter and participants of the conference material. The present invention relates to a method and a system for automatically acquiring conference participant information for supporting the improvement of the effect, and a program recording medium thereof.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In a conventional system for performing an electronic presentation, each participant can view his or her own computer screen, which is the same screen as the computer screen used by the 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 method, when the participant presses the help button or the like, the system acquires that the participant has become confused, and displays the fact on the screen of the presenter to notify 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.
Also, the presenter felt that he might be interested based on the participant's attitude, table information, etc., and had the flexibility of taking much time to give a presentation on it. However, it was unclear whether he was definitely interested in that.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As described above, in the conventional electronic presentation conference, in order for the system to acquire information about the participants, it is necessary for each participant to perform an operation for that purpose. Was needed. 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, and to automatically obtain and use participant information without making the participant aware, and accurately understand the degree of understanding of the participant. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for automatically acquiring conference room participation information capable of giving a presentation while grasping the information, and a recording medium on which the program is recorded.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, in the method for automatically acquiring conference room participation information according to the present invention, conference participants can refer to conference materials using a computer connected to a network, and present conference materials during a conference. Participant status for accumulating participant status in an electronic presentation meeting where it is possible to view while switching the position of the material explained by the person and the position of the material you want to see, and to be able to write notes A server computer equipped with a database is installed to automatically obtain data from each participant's computer without making the participants aware of the operation information performed by each participant on electronically distributed conference materials. And collectively store them in the participant status database in real time, convert that information into status information for each participant, and It is possible to provide at the time required for participants that.
As a result, the presenter can 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 in advance is collected. Therefore, targeted discussions are possible, and even during a presentation, a presenter can intensively explain a part of interest of a participant, and can respond flexibly.
[0005]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the principle and embodiments of the present invention will be described 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 explained by the presenter of the conference material and the position of the material desired to be viewed during the conference. You can see.
[0006]
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, when each participant does not understand the presenter's explanation, he or she cannot proceed with the material, stays at the page (part), and makes an effort to understand the page. For this reason, a gap occurs between the page described by the presenter and the page viewed by the participant. Conversely, if the content of the page described by the presenter is simple and easily understandable, 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 looking at. Here, the relative page viewed by each participant with respect to the page explained by the presenter is defined as the degree of understanding. In addition, when each participant feels some interest while listening to the presenter's explanation, 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 document 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 acquire the following participant information from each participant's computer without being aware of those participants.
(1) Page information viewed by each participant
(2) Information as to whether or not a memo is entered on the page viewed by each participant In this embodiment, each computer of the presenter and the participant monitors the operation of its own user, and the participant sees The server accesses the participant status database 10a of the server and accumulates the page information and the information on whether or not a memo is written on 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 holds the history thereof. 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.
[0008]
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 to update the DB (database). Is performed (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, the DB is updated (steps 22, 23, 24, and 29) at the time when page switching is detected (steps 31, 32, 35, 42, and 47), and at the time when memo writing is detected (step 41). , 43, 44) are also updated (steps 21, 25, 26). If there is an information browsing request (steps 33 and 45), the DB reads and transmits the information to the applicant (steps 27 and 28).
By automatically acquiring the PC operation information of the participants by the above method or a method similar to the method described above, and accumulating the information, the degree of understanding of each participant can be improved without being aware of the participants. Interest information can be obtained.
[0009]
FIG. 3 is an operation sequence chart of the presentation navigator showing one embodiment of the present invention.
In this 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. From the page explained by the presenter, it is divided into three: (1) looking at the previous page, (2) looking at the same page, (3) looking at the previous page, By notifying the number of persons or the number of persons, corresponding processing can be performed. That is, the system can display a presentation speed adjustment system as shown at the left end of FIG.
[0010]
That is, in FIG. 3, slides 1 to 3 mean, for example, page 1 to page 3 as position information.
(A) At first, the presenter terminal detects slide 1, and the presenter explains one page, and all the participants watch 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 decreases to 2, 1, and 0 just right.
(C) At this time, the presenter terminal detects that the presenter who knew that the explanation was slow made the slide 2 faster. The display of the system at this time is 3 which is just right.
(D) Next, the presenter terminal detects that the slide 3 has been accelerated, and stores it in the server. Each of the participant terminals A, B, and C detects that each participant has accelerated to the slide 3, and stores them in the 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 participant terminal A detects the slide 4, 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.
[0011]
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 this 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 stage of the presentation. During the presentation, the presenter is provided in real time to which part the interest of the participant is concentrated, as shown in FIG. 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, it can be seen that the contents of page 3 are the most interesting (four), and the next are pages 2 and 4 (six 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 three people who are interested in page 3 are A, B, C, and D.
[0012]
By converting the flow or sequence operation shown in FIG. 2 or 3 into a conference material reference application program and / or an acquired information display application program, and storing the converted programs in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a magnetic disk. If the recording medium is installed on an arbitrary computer and executed, 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]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, a presenter can give a presentation while accurately grasping the degree of understanding of a participant. Since the information on whether or not a part is present is gathered, targeted discussions can be conducted, and even during the presentation, the presenter can flexibly explain the areas of interest of the participants, such as intensively explaining A presentation with a sense of mind becomes possible.
[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: server computer, 10a: participant status database,
11 Computer for presenter, 12-14 Computer for participants,
15… Conference material reference application program
15 ... each program of the information acquisition display application from the server,
20 ... Network.

Claims (3)

Each computer refers to the meeting materials using a computer. During the meeting, the user can switch between the position of the materials described by the presenter of the meeting materials and the position of the materials to be referred to, and write a memo on the screen. A method for acquiring information of a presentation meeting,
The computer for each participant obtains the page information referred to by the participant and information indicating whether or not a memo has been written on the page referred to by the participant, and obtains the page referred to by the participant. accumulated in real time on whether the information or connection to the page information participants refer to the server computer by participant status database filled out a note,
The server computer converts the stored information into status information of each participant and provides the converted information to a presenter or a participant 's computer that needs the converted information at a required time. How to automatically obtain meeting room participation information. In a system for automatically acquiring conference room participation information in which a server computer and a participant computer are connected via a network,
The participant computer acquires the interest information of each participant or the page information viewed by each participant, transmits these information to the server computer, and from the server computer, the page information and the presenter's A means for acquiring understanding status and interest information indicating the degree of understanding calculated by the page being described and informing the presenter ,
The server computer stores interest information of each participant transmitted from the participant computer or page information viewed by each participant in a participant status database attached to the server computer, and A meeting room comprising means for transmitting the participant's understanding status and interest information on the server computer calculated by the page information and the page described by the presenter in response to a request from the computer for the participant. Automatic participation information acquisition system. 2. 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.

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