Re: [Tools-discuss] MeetEcho A/V UI Suggestion

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 29 July 2020 20:57 UTC

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On 2020-07-29, at 22:42, Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> wrote:
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> The Floor

Makes a lot of sense.

As a refinement, I would offer that there is a difference between the Mic line (where you are seen and speaking, but can naturally take turns), and taking over the projector (of which there is only one in the room).  So granting someone the Mic doesn’t mean that they should be (willfully or accidentally) replacing the shared screen.  That is even more important as there are usually three roles on the floor:

— Chairs
— Presenters
— Head of mic line, plus possible someone standing there with you as a counterpoint

Apart from that (important) detail, I think that moving the interface from thinking in terms of media streams (which are the natural way of thinking for a Meetecho developer) to actual application concepts such as “The Floor”, “The presenter” (what a meeting participant has in mind) makes sense.
Usually each participant can decide at the start of the meeting whether they want to be seen, and can get the camera access dialog behind them (same for mic access dialog).
The chairs can decide whether they want to have a gallery view (rare, but sometimes useful) or the usual screen-sharing one for the segment of the meeting.
(And I like meetecho’s current ability to rudely grab the Mic, which is a bit like “point of order” in the traditional meeting organization.)

I’m not sure we need all the above, but it would be a better mapping of our meetings to the digital world, and it is exactly what makes web meeting software situated software.

Grüße, Carsten