Meetings with remarkable manuscripts

Meetings with teams.

How many teams meetings do you go to regularly? If you give a quick answer you may say one or two, but if you stop to count them up you may be surprised at the number. They may include meetings involved with clinical service, training, audit, management and several other aspects of your work. When I worked as a full time general practitioner, for example, I belonged to a partnership, a medical ...

Meetings with costly participation

We study a collective decision-making process in which people who are interested in an issue are invited to attend a meeting, and the policy chosen is a compromise among the preferences of those who show up. We show that in an equilibrium the number of attendees is small and their positions are extreme; in a wide range of circumstances the outcome is random. These characteristics of an equilibr...

Browsing Recorded Meetings with Ferret

Browsing for elements of interest within a recorded meeting is time-consuming. We describe work in progress on a meeting browser, which aims to support this process by displaying many types of data. These include media, transcripts and processing results, such as speaker segmentations. Users interact with these visualizations to observe and control synchronized playback of the recorded meeting.

Meetings with Costly Participation 1

We study a collective decision-making process in which people who are interested in an issue are invited to attend a meeting, and the policy chosen is a compromise among the preferences of those who show up. We show that in an equilibrium the number of attendees is small and their positions are extreme; in a wide range of circumstances the outcome is random. These characteristics of an equilibr...

Guide to Preparing Manuscripts