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MeetingMachine Distribution

Warning: Experimental Open Source Software. This system isn't even alpha! This system is available on this page for the convienence of researchers working on ubiquitous computing. It represents a build from the MeetingMacine part of the open-source project "iros" on sourceforge.

This version -- WALTZ -- only works on Win32 and it has be tested only on WinXP.

This version -- TWOSTEP -- should work on platforms that support Java; it is only tested on WinXP.

Ok I read the warning and I want the MM zip file anyway! (This link sends you to SourceForge. Look for "Latest File Releases", "MeetingMachine" then read across to "download" link.)

• News
• Overview
• Installation
• More information

News

New release sequence is "twostep". New features:

• Built on iROS2 technology, including PointRight-2-post-ubicomp2003-version with Mac-compatible protocol.
• New connection client based on iROSManager techonology (in Java ; replaces win32-specific MMMenu).
• Replaced server.bat with iROSManager-based launcher.
• Added VNC support for remote users.
• (planned) Java-based eTable viewer

MM-twostep is mildly incompatiable with MM-waltz since the PointRight protocol has changed.

Overview

The MeetingMachine is a shared networked appliance supporting the exchange, discussion, and collation of electronic documents. The appliance consists of a digital projector with internal storage, a " document control" handheld device that helps users move documents to and from portable memory devices and the MeetingMachine. A suite of client programs allow laptop users to use their mouse on the projector and to move documents to and from their laptop to the MeetingMachine.

The MeetingMachine prototype has the following parts in place:

• Server Software: --
  • Eventheap, multimachine event queue
  • WebDAV server (tomcat), file sharing in meeting, --
  • Pointright server, accepts mouse events onto projector --
  • MediaSensorHandler, manage USB, CompactFlash, RFID sensors --
  • Projector UI (IE running in fullscreen mode)
• Server Hardware:
• Projector
• laptop: to run servers and file share.
• Document Controller Software
• Web browser with event listener (modified armaDillo)
• linux familiar
• Document Controller Hardware
• iPaq w/ 802.11b
• docking station with USB, CompactFlash, RFID (in design)
• Laptop Client Software --
• MM supervisor (MMMenu): launches other clients. MeetingMachineMenu: launches other clients
• Pointright client: sends mouse events to projector
• WebDav Client: (IE running in WebDav Mode).
• Debugger and help files.

Installation

The MeetingMachine distribution is designed to work reliably right out of the zip file and with minimal impact to your software environment.

1. The zip file contains a single subdirectory "MeetingMachine". Unpack the zip file in any directory you can remember. I use "C:".
2. To start the server (eg on a machine running a projector): double click the file called "server2" or "server2.bat".
3. To start the client (eg on you laptop): double click the file called "meet" or "meet.bat".
4. Let me know how it goes ;-).

Minimal impact to your system.

This version of the MeetingMachine distribution does the following things to your system:

1. Zip file unpacked by you requires 30MB in one directory. It contains:
   1. Full Java Runtime Environment (the redistributable one) 20MB
   2. Partial Jakarta Tomcat server 4MB
   3. Jikes Java Compiler
   4. iROS system distribution
   5. Help files, Scripts.
2. Temporary files are written into your system's TEMP directory (usually C:\TEMP or under you user name).
3. Pointright2 may write two entries into your system registry if you launch it outside of my scripts.

More Information

• Open Source: see iros/user/jjbarton/MeetingMachine in the IROS project on sourceforge and the iwork home page.
• "The MeetingMachine: Interactive Workspace Support for Nomadic Users" John J. Barton§, Tony Hsieh*, Vikram Vijayaraghavan*, Tomoto Shimizu†, Brad Johanson*, and Armando Fox* (§ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
  *Stanford University, Stanford, CA† Stanford University Visiting Scholar on leave from Hitachi Ltd.) Technical Report HPL-2003-128 and Accepted for publication and presentation at WMCSA 2003.
• The README.TXT from the distirbution
• The files in the help directory.

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