The Townhall system is a study to determine whether there are ways to allow people to understand and visualize how they can dynamically create more efficient meetings. As a potential solution, we developed Townhall - aserver side and client side applications that allow users to create impromptu meetings with others who share commensurate skills and goals. In addition to creating meetings, Townhall also allows a meeting attendee to rate fellow attendees on their performance in certain tasks, namely their skill level on those tasks. This creates a database that maps users to their skills, as well as a rating of how well they apply those skills during given tasks, together allowing future meeting organizers to invite to projects and tasks those users who meet certain performance criteria.
Townhall architecture and goals paper
Townhall built on top of the MobileCollab mobile collaboration platform.