Multi-touch Conference

Client: Catherine White, BT <catherine.white@bt.com>

Rather than flying all over the world to hold discussions, it seems like governments and businesses could do much of their technical work via large touch screens. Skype and Google Hangout don't really work, because for a technical discussion, you mostly need to see the papers and presentations, not people's faces. Several people might be in the same room, using a large multi-touch screen (this will be provided by the client), and others could be around the world. But at a conference, people have to choose what issues to focus on - everyone doesn't do the same thing at the same time. There might easily be several specialised sub-topics being discussed at the same time, as in Meetups.com. Your task is to create a multi-touch, multi-user browser extension that lets groups of people convene and organise discussions as an overlay on a multi-window web browser. Sub groups should be able to see who they are talking to in other place, and a single large screen should support multiple users contributing to more than one topic at the same time.