CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND ITS SUPPORT DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly manage a conference where the situations concerning plural agenda items change momentarily, by preparing a conference management method which divides a conference for each agenda item, progresses the divided conferences at a time and report the information generated momentarily to every proper conference and also preparing a conference management support device which utilizes a network. SOLUTION: Every conference participant is connected to a network 50 via a participant device 10 having an information input/output device and a controller 13 to exchange the information with other participants and to control other devices. A conference device 20 corresponding to a single conference group and a conference constitution controller 40 which controls the constitutions of both devices 10 and 20 are also connected to the network 50. The controller 40 has a data base to manage the conference group data for each conference group and also to manage the conference device data for each conference device. Only a single person is designated as an information transmitter of every conference group, so that the confusion is eliminated among the conference groups.