We discuss the infrastructure and design of an experimental conference room designed for the purpose of integrating emergent technologies in an operational setting.
The EMMA System: Enabling Novel User Interfaces to Integrated Conferencing Systems
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We discuss the infrastructure and design of an experimental conference room designed for the purpose of integrating emergent technologies in an operational setting. This system is a replica of standard corporate conference facilities at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. Our environment is currently used by a small number of volunteer participants in order for us to accommodate user input early and frequently in the development cycle. Most commercial conference facilities rely on interfaces designed and built by hardware vendors or system integrators. We have created an abstraction and interface to our facility's controller that enables the development of new kinds of room interfaces. We describe our system EMMA and also user interface development for this system.