NDLI: Development of a Meeting Browser towards Supporting Public Involvement

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shiramatsu, S. Ozono, T. Shintani, T. Komatani, K. Ogata, T. Takahashi, T. Okuno, H.G.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This paper presents novel methods for supportfor browsing a long meeting record towards supporting publicinvolvement. Facilitating public involvement in the consensusbuilding process for community development needs a lot of effortand time for sharing context and concerns among citizens andstakeholders. A record of public meeting often becomes toolong to overview and to understand for people who did notparticipate in it. The two issues we addressed relate to how to bestprovide support for these people. First, support for overviewingthe changes in a long meeting to track and to find intendedarguments. Second, support for understanding the backgroundof arguments. The approaches to the issues are first, to visualizethe transition of topics in the meeting, and second provideinformation related to a transient topic specified by a user. Themeeting browser we developed is designed on the basis of VisualInformation-Seeking Mantra, “Overview first, zoom and filter, thendetails on demand.” To visualize a dynamic topic flow, a graph forvisualizing the topic transition, SalienceGraph is used to track thedynamic transition of the salience of a word. To visualize relatedinformation, the search engine based on SalienceGraph retrievespassages related to a transient topic from past meeting records ordocuments. These approaches support citizens and stakeholdersto find, to track, and to understand a target argument from along meeting record.
Starting Page	717
Ending Page	722
File Size	426942
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424453344
DOI	10.1109/CSE.2009.362
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-08-29
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Visualization Target tracking Spirals Decision making meeting browser consensus building Paper technology information visualization Environmental management salience Filters Search engines public involvement Risk management Informatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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