A New Approach for Slideshow Presentation at Working Meetings Bernardo Gaspar 1, Carlos Pinho 2, Rui Campos 2, Ricardo Morla 2 FEUP 1, INESC Porto 2, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Phone: +351-222094000, Fax: +351-222094250, e-mail:
[email protected] 1, {cpinho,rcampos,rmorla}@inescporto.pt 2 Abstract — Today, presentations at most working meetings are display the current slide. Participants can thus watch the supported by computer slides. The traditional approach is to slideshow in their laptops and a projector is no longer display the slides with a projector. A less traditional approach required. DiS may be beneficial in ad-hoc meetings where a follows from research into interactive rooms, where projector is not always available. This application may also presentations can be carried out with the help of multiple, improve the flow of meetings where a projector is available, typically embedded displays. This paper explores a third approach that is motivated by a simple observation – nowadays as it is sufficient to have one of the laptops connected to the people often bring into meetings their own laptops, which are projector for the entire meeting. The presentations of the capable of supporting slideshow applications and can other participants can be displayed via the laptop that is internetwork with other devices. We present DiS, a proof-of- connected to the projector. A meeting in which DiS is used concept application that implements this approach building on has the advantage of not requiring changing projector cables existing slideshow software and on network and distributed or downloading participants’ presentations in advance.