JPH0816660A - Conference / meeting support computer system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Operability of the system that supports meetings and meetings
Improve functionality. That is, the interests of each member are directly input to the computer to automatically organize, classify and systematize the conference. [Structure] In a computerized conference / meeting support system including a client computer 1, a server computer 2, a super-large display device 3, and a connection device 4 for exchanging data between these devices, the interests of each member are expressed in a predetermined format. Input directly to the client computer and send it as content data to the server computer. The server computer 2 has a content data storage table in which identifiers and attribute data (display positions, etc.) are added to the content data for collective storage, and a first content data storage table for automatically classifying and sorting the content data itself. The logic and the second logic for automatically tracking the process of the meeting / meeting by using the attribute data in the content data storage table are provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention summarizes the interests of each member of a meeting / meeting in a meeting / meeting for strategic planning of information system, planning of overall plan, development plan of individual system, etc. The present invention relates to an electronic system for meeting / meeting support used for common recognition.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when gathering together and recognizing interests among members in a meeting / meeting, the following procedure has been often performed. (1) Each member expresses each interest in a sentence, one by one. (2) Handwrite this sentence on a small-sized, peelable sheet of paper with a felt-tip pen or the like. (3) Affix each of the described papers to a wide space such as imitation paper so that all members can see at a glance. (4) When the semantic content of the content data is unclear, each member discusses the content data and makes corrections such as addition, deletion, and change of the content data to clarify the semantic content. (5) Each member decides the sticking position of the paper according to the meaning of the content data and moves the paper manually.・ If it can be judged that the meanings of the content data are the same, paste the relevant sheets with the understanding of the members who described them. Form papers with similar content data in the same group,
Affix them to adjacent areas so that you can read the contents of each sheet. At the same time, give a title name that describes the meaning of this group in one word.・ Organize and re-attach the relations of content data from the viewpoints of causes / results, means / purposes, etc. Repeat these procedures to sort out your concerns and deepen your mutual understanding. If the discussions are exhausted and it is determined that the members have reached an agreement, the text on each small paper attached to the imitation paper will be word-processed in order to submit it as an official document and save it. Meetings and meetings were proceeding in the above procedure. Therefore, the following problems existed. (A) Occurrence of work for converting a vast amount of written contents handwritten on a small sheet into a word processor (b) Manual operation such as determination of display position of a small sheet, sticking, moving, and reattaching sheets based on the determination Occurrence

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, inputting work is indispensable for computer processing of data of interest handwritten on a small sheet. Moreover, the work man-hours are enormous. Further, the work of moving, pasting and deleting small sheets by the manual processing of the meeting / meeting member is inefficient and depends on the member's ability to sort out problems. A first object of the present invention is to provide a conference / meeting support computerization system capable of improving such problems and reducing the number of man-hours for inputting a concern. A second purpose is to eliminate manual work and automatically classify and sort interests on a computer.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the electronic system for meeting / meeting support according to the present invention includes various types such as a server computer (2 in FIG. 1) for controlling and managing the entire system, a pen or a voice. Input means (not shown), client computer (1 in FIG. 1) given to each meeting / meeting member or each group of a plurality of members, ultra-large display (3 in FIG. 1), and connection such as LAN connecting these. Equipped with a device (4 in Fig. 1), instead of manually writing on small paper or rewriting the written contents into a word processor, the interests of each member are directly input to the client computer and used as contents data. It is characterized by sending to the server computer. In addition, a content data storage table for collectively storing content data (including attribute data) in the server computer (FIG. 2)
And the content data itself in this table is automatically classified,
The feature is that the first logic (FIG. 7) for sorting and the second logic (FIG. 8) for automatically tracking the process of the meeting / meeting using the attribute data in the content data storage table are provided. is there.

[0005]

In the present invention, (1) the interest of each member is input to the content data storage table using the computer provided to each member. (2) By using the first logic provided in advance, the content data in the content data storage table is processed, and the interests of each member are automatically classified and sorted. (3) Using the second logic provided in advance, the attribute data in the content data storage table is processed to automatically track the process of the meeting / meeting and summarize the meeting contents. This will improve the operability by automating the meeting / meeting support. That is, each member views the displayed content data and exchanges opinions, and if correction is necessary, partial correction processing such as content correction such as addition or deletion from the client or server computer or correction of the display position is performed. Is easy and this process can be repeated until all members agree. Therefore, it is possible to listen to and systematize interests such as problems and request for solution that each member of the meeting / meeting has, and to recognize the interests accurately among the members. Furthermore, the interests of each member can be automatically classified and sorted based on each characteristic of the content data itself and the combination thereof, and the display position and the like can be automatically determined. Also, as the attribute data, the display position of the content data, the client computer device NO that received the content data, the content data is output on the display panel of a large display, etc., and the time when the display position is determined is held and the content is retained. Based on each characteristic and combination of attribute data attached to the data, the interests of each member are automatically organized and classified from various aspects, the meeting / meeting situation is reproduced, and the meeting / meeting summary is supported. can do. It also simplifies the system configuration (for example, client computer, server computer, shared printer,
Consists of a connection device for exchanging data between these devices, a display panel for pasting the printer paper output from the shared printer, and a reading device for reading the position data of the display board), and the work for pasting the printer paper at the meeting / meeting member. By doing this manually, it is possible to support digitization at a lower cost.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of an electronic system for meeting / meeting support in a first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a "client computer" 1 given to a meeting / meeting member, a "server computer" 2 for controlling / managing these client computer and other devices, and interests of each member inputted from the client computer. It is composed of a "super-large-sized display" 3 for displaying information as content data so that all members can see it, and a "connecting device" 4 for exchanging data between these devices.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of the content data storage table in the first embodiment of the present invention. The "content data storage table" of this embodiment is a main storage table provided in the server computer, and the server computer 2 sequentially processes the content data describing the interests of the members and collectively stores them. In FIG. 2, (1a) is data (identification consistent No.) for uniquely identifying the content data. The server computer 2 sequentially accumulates the consistent Nos according to the time sequence in which the server computer 2 receives the content data from the client computer 1, and automatically inputs the consistent Nos. Into the content data storage table. (1b) is the content data itself, and is composed of "keywords of interest" and "text data of interests". What is input to the client computer 1 by each member using an input device such as a pen or voice is received by the server computer 2 via the connection device 4 and automatically input to the content data storage table. In addition,
As one means for improving the quality and accuracy of the input data of the “keyword of interest” and the “text data of interest”, the format in which each member inputs his / her interest from each client computer is defined. The concrete example is as shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, 1. Business activities 2. Expected effect 3. Management activities 4. Each technical term related to other keywords is selected from or added to the “interest concern input guidance screen” in FIG. 4, and stored in the “interest concern keyword” column in FIG. In this example, input to item 1 “business activity” is indispensable, but only one of items 2 to 4 needs to be selected. Simultaneously with this process, a sentence indicating the content of interest is described in a free format as illustrated in FIG. 3 and automatically stored in the “interest content text data” column in FIG.

On the other hand, the attribute data of FIG. 2 undergoes the following processing and is input to the content data storage table. (2a) of FIG. 2 is position data for displaying the content data on the super-large display. (i) When the display position is automatically determined The display position data automatically determined based on the “contents data classification / organization determination logic” (FIG. 7 described later) provided in the server computer 2 is stored in the contents data storage table. To auto-fill directly. (ii) When the display position is partially modified manually The position where the corresponding content data is displayed is automatically read by the position identification function of the super-large display and sent to the server computer via the connection device, and the content data is displayed. Automatically fill in the storage table. (2b) is client computer device No data used to identify which member the content data is of interest to. The server computer 2 automatically identifies the device No of the client computer that transmitted the content data,
The device No is automatically input to the content data storage table. (2c) is time data when interest is input to the client computer 1. When each member writes content data in the client computer 1 and then presses a key to be transmitted to the server computer side, the server computer 2 automatically identifies the time and automatically inputs the time into the content data storage table. (2d) is identification consistent No i (i =
The corresponding content data of 1, 2, ..., N) is time data output and displayed on the super-large-sized display. This time is automatically entered. When the content itself is rewritten or the display position is moved, (1b) the content data itself (2a) the display position data (2d) the output time is automatically stored in sequence as correction and change history data. To do. The example in Fig. 2 shows the situation where (1b) the content data itself (2d) the output time is transferred and corrected, respectively, due to the change of the display position.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a content data sorting / classifying discrimination table by a business activity-expected effect matrix in the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a business activity-management activity in the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the content data sort classification | category determination table by a matrix, These tables are the auxiliary memory tables which memorize | store the intermediate processing result which sorts and classifies "content data" of the content data storage table of FIG. In FIG. 5, by initially classifying the concerns by the expected effect (for example, what is the concern about “increasing competitiveness in delivery time”) and the business activity (for example, what is the concern about “sales”)? , Shows that many individual concerns can be classified into multiple groups and subdivided into the number of concerns that meeting / meeting members can consider. Similarly, in FIG.
By looking at the concerns by management activity (for example, what are the concerns regarding “sales plan”) and by business activities (for example, what is the concern regarding “sales”), the number of possible concerns can be considered. It indicates that sorting is performed. The auxiliary storage tables of FIGS. 5 and 6 are provided in the server computer and are connected to the content data storage table which is the main storage table of FIG. That is, each content data stored in the content data storage table is automatically sent to each content data classification table of FIGS. 5 and 6 and classified based on the “content data classification / organization determination logic” described in FIG. As a result of the classification, the display position is automatically determined, and the content data of the concerned matter is displayed on the super-large display. If all members see the display contents of the super-large display 3 and discuss it, and if it is determined that changes and corrections are necessary, the contents data itself, display position data, etc. will be corrected under the agreement of each member,
Each data in the content data storage table is modified / changed.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the processing of the content data classification discrimination logic in the first embodiment of the present invention. In this logic, the consistent identification No ((1 in FIG. 2
a)) is incremented (steps 101, 1)
02, 108), and whether or not items 2, 3, and 4 in the interest category keyword column are described (step 1
03-106) and classify the content data (step 10).
7, 109, 110). This process is repeated until all the concerns have been classified.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the processing of the meeting / meeting content arrangement support logic based on the attribute data in the first embodiment of the present invention. This logic is a processing logic that collects the contents of the meeting / meeting or reproduces the result of the last meeting / meeting to support the continuous examination, and is incorporated in the server computer 2 in advance. Further, this logic has the following four processing modes. After reading the content data storage table (step 201) and designating the processing mode (step 202), the four processing modes can be used individually or in combination. To use. Processing mode (1) By using the display position data in the stored table attribute data, -By business activity-By management activity-By expected effect-By keyword "Interest table" and by the above combinations, "Interest table" This is a processing mode that supports the creation of a "list" (step 2
03, 204). Processing Mode (2) This is a processing mode in which among the stored table attribute data, the client computer apparatus No. data and each member are associated with each other to automatically organize and confirm the interests of each member (steps 205 and 206). Processing mode (3) This is a processing mode for automatically extracting a unique opinion or interest based on the display position data of the storage table attribute data. This mode focuses on the fact that it is often possible to determine that the content data in which the business activity column and the expected effect column in FIG. 6 are classified as “other” are unique opinions and interests. Yes (steps 207, 20)
8). Processing mode (4) Among the storage table attribute data, the input time data of the content data to the client computer and the determination time data of the display position on the super-large display are used to track the progress of the meeting / meeting, This is a processing mode that assists in organizing and checking the contents of the meeting (step 209-).
212).

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the outline of a simplified electronic system for meeting / meeting support in the second embodiment of the present invention. The system of the present embodiment includes a "client computer" 1, a "server computer" 2, a "connecting device" 4, and a "common printer" that prints out the interests of each member input from the client computer 1 as printed matter. 5, a “display panel” 6 for sticking the printed matter output from this printer, and a “display position reading device” for identifying the position where the printed matter is stuck when the display position is partially corrected manually. 7 and. This simple system has the following functions (1) and (2). (1) The written interests of each member are directly received by the client computer. (2) Collectively store these concerns in the content data storage table. Based on the content data and its attribute data, these interests are automatically classified and sorted, and the display position is determined. However, as shown in (3) below, there is no function for directly displaying the process and status of classification and sorting. (3) It is not possible to directly display the process and status of automatically classifying and sorting interests to each member. The logic embedded in the server computer classifies and sorts interests. As a result, the member views the determined position data and manually removes the corresponding print in which each interest is printed at the corresponding position on the display board. The other configurations (table configuration, etc.) and functions are similar to those of the first embodiment. In this way, with a cheaper configuration, it is possible to reduce the manual work at the time of the meeting / meeting and to proceed the work smoothly.

[0013]

According to the present invention, the following effects (1) to (4) can be obtained. (1) Interests of each member of the meeting / meeting can be directly input to the computer. (2) By incorporating a logic that automatically sorts and classifies the interests of each member input to the computer, it is not directly influenced by the skill analysis of the member's problem analysis and sorting ability. As a result, it is possible to organize and systematize the concerns.
It is possible above a certain level. (3) It is possible to eliminate the work of reorganizing classified interests into word processors. It can be output to a printer or the like as needed. (4) Even after a lapse of time, the situation and contents of this meeting / meeting can be reproduced on the computer. By utilizing this function, it becomes easy to smoothly proceed with the previous conference / meeting contents, the results are continuing, or related conferences.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of an electronic system for meeting / meeting support in a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content data storage table in the first example of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a concern input format according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a concern input guidance screen according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a content data sorting classification determination table based on a business activity-expected effect matrix according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a content data sorting classification judgment table based on a business activity-management activity matrix in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process of content data classification determination logic in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process of a meeting / meeting content arrangement support logic based on attribute data in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an outline of a simplified electronic system for conference / meeting support in a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Client computer, 2 ... Server computer, 3 ... Super-large display, 4 ... Connection device, 5 ...
・ Common printer, 6 ... Display panel, 7 ... Display position reading device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for inputting an interest of each member in a predetermined format at the time of a meeting / meeting, a plurality of client computers having a function of receiving input information and sending it as content data to a server computer, and the content data. About the above, the attribute data including the display position and time on the display means is created / added by the classification / sorting logic in the own device and stored together, and the above concerns are classified based on the characteristics and combinations of the stored content data. A server computer having a function of sorting and tracking the process of meeting / meeting, a display unit for displaying the interest at a designated position according to the content data sent from the server computer, and each of the computer and the display unit. An electronic system for meeting / meeting support, which is provided with means for connecting.