Meeting Support Institute

If you think relaxation, or even napping at conference should be an accepted best practice, here is news for you.
With a little bit of AV (light and sound) you can now create the best relaxing environment in the world at your conference.
Add one hostess that gently wakes up individuals at the time they wish and the greatest relaxing service at conferences is now ready to welcome the stressed or tired.
A conference venue could even invest in a permanent relax room that with a simple switch of a button can be turned on or off.
The below article is copied from www.sciencedaily.com
Scientists Create 'World's Most Relaxing Room'

Sickening — worst sound in the world announced

Vomiting is officially the most horrible sound ever, according to over a million votes cast worldwide in a mass online science experiment.
International visitors to the BadVibes website (www.sound101.org) — a research project from the University of Salford — listened to sounds such as a dentist's drill, fingernails scraping down a blackboard and aircraft flying past, before rating them in terms of their unpleasantness.

AMI (Augmented Multi-party Interaction)

Jointly coordinated by University of Edinburgh and IDIAP Research Institute  AMI seeks to improve Communications in Business Meetings. Both Co-located (face to face meetings) and remote attendees (virtual meetings). About Machine learning, Impact on Meetings of the future, Team centric business processes, richer recording, recognize interaction events and patterns, models of group dynamics, content extraction, person identification, speech recognition, location tracking, recognition tasks (speech, dominance, emotions, gestures, actions, localization), Automatic annotation, automatic indexing and summarization.

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