Towards a pattern language for modeling interactive applications in smart meeting rooms

The domain of smart meeting rooms is an interesting emerging subset of pervasive learning environments. In a given smart meeting room, several users are supposed to cooperate together while employing a set of static and dynamic heterogeneous devices beside an ensemble of passive objects. Moreover the location specification for every resident entity in the environment, and the synchronization between the actions to be executed by the various actors have to be taken into account. Thus, the corresponding modeling process of such an environment cannot be considered as a trivial process if we take into account the existing dependencies between all the entities in this environment. In this paper, we present an attempt to overcome the complexity of this process by building a pattern language addressing the domain of smart meeting rooms. We believe that the usage of the patterns included in this pattern language guarantees an effective and less time-consuming modeling process.