Identifying User Requirements for Novel Interaction Capture

Prior to building software to review meeting recordings it is important that we understand both the needs and current practices of meeting participants. Traditionally, such user requirements are collected by either examining current practices or by performing a user evaluation of new technology. The approach taken in the AMI project is to combine the results of the two approaches in order to produce a rich set of user requirements. In this paper we describe the methods used in both approaches, highlighting the motivations behind both the combinatorial approach and the specific methodology applied in each case, proposing a hybrid approach that combines the benefits of each.