Supporting Lightweight Customization for Meeting Environments

Figure 1. The pilot study setup ABSTRACT Digital wall-sized displays commonly support authoring and presentation in face to face meetings. Yet most meeting applications show not only meeting content (i.e., the material being developed) but authoring tools as well – the usual controls, palettes, and menus. Attendees are distracted when the author navigates the (usually complex) interface as part of the authoring process the tools themselves unnecessarily clutter the display. The problem is that current customization techniques are not suited for meeting environments as complex customization interfaces take attention away from the meeting agenda thus making customization a socially unacceptable practice.