The Meeting Report Process: Bridging EMS with PDA

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) are important tools to support personal processes. However, their contribution to co-operative processes, like meetings, is reduced. On the other hand, the link between meetings and other processes existent in organizations is also a problem. This paper discusses the integration of results produced during meeting sessions supported by Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS) with other processes, especially the ones supported by scheduling tools implemented by PDA. The paper develops a framework linking “personal data” and “meeting data.” The framework originated a combined PDA-EMS system. The system was experimented by an organisation in order to evaluate the concept.