INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND DEVICE AND ITS PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH ITS PROGRAM RECORDED

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present only information necessary for each of participants on a shared display, or to present the information in such configurations that it is easy to see, and to properly control the information to be presented to whom and in which configurations, and to present the information itself being the base of facing cooperative operations with its position, direction and contents appropriate for each of the participants while enabling all the participants to share the information. SOLUTION: This information providing device is provided with a controller part 12 which instructs which information should be presented to whom and in which configurations and a layout manager part 13 which realizes that. The proper control of the presenting configurations is executed according to those cooperative operations, and the instruction to those functions is stored as the meta data of the information to be presented in an information repository 11. Also, the instruction contents may be designated and changed by a user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI