Remote Meeting Disruption Detection and Participant Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods require user interaction to address disturbances during remote meetings, which can lead to missed information and potential reprimand for sudden absences.
Innovation Solution
A system and method to detect disruptions in a user's environment during a remote meeting, determine the source, and generate a message identifying the disruption to meeting participants without user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If user manually addresses disruptions during remote meetings, then user can respond to distractions, but user may miss important information and face sudden absences
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of disruptions using sensors (microphone, camera, etc.) before the user needs to manually respond. The automated disruption detection system continuously monitors the environment during meetings, identifying disruptions such as background noise, movement detection, or other environmental factors that would require user attention, thereby enabling the user to respond without manually monitoring the environment throughout the meeting
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to other meeting participants about the disruption being detected. When the sensor array identifies a disruption, the system communicates this information to remote participants, allowing them to understand the context of any potential user interruption without the user needing to step away from the meeting to explain the situation
2Extent of automation
If automated disruption detection is implemented, then real-time notification is provided to participants, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses multi-functional sensors that serve both meeting quality monitoring and disruption detection purposes. The same microphone array used for audio processing during meetings also detects background noise and environmental disruptions. The camera used for video conferencing also performs movement detection to identify disruptions, eliminating the need for separate dedicated sensors and reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The disruption detection system leverages existing meeting infrastructure and sensors already present in the user's environment. The system uses the device's built-in microphone, camera, and other sensors that are already part of the meeting setup, allowing the automated detection functionality to be added without requiring separate complex hardware systems
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AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, during a meeting, a disruption within an environment surrounding a user, wherein the meeting is facilitated using a communication medium and comprises at least one participant remote to the user; determining, utilizing at least one sensor, a source of disruption; generating, utilizing a messaging generator system, a message identifying the disruption; and providing, to the at least one participant, the message. Other aspects are described and claimed.