Meety

Year: 2007
Status: In-progress
Edition(s) Available: Visual mockup

The purpose of the Meety project is to increase the richness of face-to-face collaborations through the incorporation of opportunities for clarification, expansion, and interjection.  The project name is designed to capture the generalizable nature of the tool (something that is useful for all types of meetings), at the same time alluding to the adjective “meaty”, which is a synonym for “substantial”. 

Meety is designed to be especially useful for classroom-based meetings within higher education, although it could have applicability in other contexts.  A typical higher education use of Meety could include the following scenario:

• Students in a course, using their laptop computer and external microphone device, record the proceedings of a course (a student could also use a web cam or internal microphone device). 
• The recording will be simultaneously transmitted to a central server, where it will be stored with the recordings.
• Students could then augment the verbal sections of the course with asynchronous discussion tools. For example, a student may want to highlight a 20 second section of video presented by a colleague presenting a research project and challenge the assumptions the colleague made. Although such challenges could be made in a F2F context, such challenges can be timeless in the sense that it is not bound by fixed course time periods.
• In addition to capturing the audio as it is produced, the system will perform speech recognition on the audio and produce a set of resources which it thinks will augment the instruction. Students can then collaborative rate up or down the materials, discuss them, and the instructor can remove materials he or she thinks is inappropriate.

In sum, the system can augment existing verbal discourse through effective uses of human collaboration and machine intelligence.

 

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