Moving Out of the Meeting Room

This paper empirically examine mobility in face-to-face meetings to characterise such encounters and suggest meeting support beyond the meeting room, and identifies four dimensions of such mobile meetings.

Abstract

Recent research in CSCW shows that people become mobile in order to meet. Such meetings take place everywhere. Therefore, they are difficult to conduct using traditional meeting support. In this paper, we empirically examine mobility in face-to-face meetings. The objective is to characterise such encounters and suggest meeting support beyond the meeting room. We have identified four dimensions of such mobile meetings: establishing meetings, multiple threads, briefings, and technology. The implications from this study complement existing research with guidelines for mobile meetings.