Preparing, extending and retrieving captured information

In the area of ubiquitous computing, "capture and access " has been defined as "the task of preserving a record of some live experience that is then reviewed at some point in future ". Capture and access applications have been built in domains such as meetings and classrooms. However the work reported so far focus on the capture portion of the application and, although the Web is commonly used to deliver the captured information, the documents are mostly static and hard to reuse. Therefore, there is a lack of support for integrated user-driven tasks, such as allowing reuse when preparing the information before the live experience and adding annotations or references to the captured contents after live experience has been finished. We present in this paper an integrated environment that can be used to prepare, extend and retrieve the corresponding information.