Introduction NotePals is a lightweight collaborative meeting support system that automatically combines individuals' meeting notes into a shared meeting record.
Shared records are essential for maintaining a workgroup's knowledge.
Often, meeting scribes maintain such records, but this puts a heavy load on the scribe and makes all notes subject to his interpretation. Computerized meeting rooms capture information during meetings, but these rooms are expensive and not available in most meeting environments. These notes are then automatically combined into a shared document. This system spreads note taking responsibility across the group, and members need only PDAs during their meetings. NotePals notes are taken in digital ink, which is free-form and frees group members from having to learn a shorthand or correct handwriting recognition.