Heather Richter http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hrichter Understanding Meeting Capture and Access Many work practices consist of repeated discussions among teams of people: status is discussed, decisions are made, alternatives are considered, and details are explained. A large amount of this rich, often informal, information that is generated during these discussions often does not get recorded in formal documentation. Yet this information is later useful for providing additional context, details, and rationale surrounding a project. Ubiquitous computing has as one theme the capture, integration, and access of everyday activities, in order to provide a multimedia record of those activities for later perusal. By applying automated capture and access technologies to work discussions, specifically meetings, large amounts of informal project information may be recorded and preserved for later use. Meeting capture has been a common subject of research in the ubiquitous computing community for the past decade. However, the majority of the research has focused on technologies to support the capture, but not enough on the motivation for accessing the captured record and the impact on everyday work practices. Our long-term research agenda is to understand how access of captured meetings impacts work practices based on extended authentic use of a working capture and access system. To do this, we have developed capture and access services as part of a larger distributed workspace prototype called TeamSpace. TeamSpace now serves as a testbed for evaluating meeting capture and access services in real settings. In this talk, I will describe the TeamSpace prototype we have developed, report on initial usage, and outline our plans for the ongoing evaluation of TeamSpace.