CONFERENCE CONTROL METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM

摘要

Participants are divided into groups and utterance/information exchange is performed by online communication in each of the groups. In accordance with a progress of the topic/proceeding in each group, a new group is generated or a group unification, division, or member exchange is performed so as to realize an online idea creation conference by a large number of participants. Group information modification is performed by an in-group discussion monitoring engine which monitors the discussion content of each group and the state of a speaker and a group information control engine which controls generation of each group and a participating member. In order to realize an independent discussion in each group, the real time communication is linked with the short-time time shift reproduction.