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Scheduling

User group: Visitor, Staff [4], Project Group

Location: Pretty much everywhere. Meeting/Conference Room [2]

Scenarios

  1. You need find out if you have any meetings today before going to lunch with your colleague. You go over to the nearest PALplate, bring up the scheduler, and authenticate yourself. You can see that if you leave now, you'll have plenty of time for lunch.
  2. You're meeting runs over, and there's no time for the final demo. You decide to reschedule. You go over to the meeting room PALplate and select "Schedule". The schedule is empty today from 3pm onwards. Everyone can make it then, so you add an entry for your group.
  3. Since you need some A/V equipment for the demo, you access the "object" schedule and check if any is available. It is, so you add a note to the schedule that you need it at 3pm.
  4. When you finish, you press the "Broadcast" button, and the event is added to the calendar of everyone in the group which scheduled the meeting.

Interface

The interface is calendar based. Searches can be done on locations, rooms, and objects (eg the TV/VCR).

Issues

Privacy

Not everything should show up in the calendar for every person ...

Hardware

Software

Network


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