Setup for the HHMI Science meeting tomorrow. Is this the future of conference poster sessions? I tend to view everything as optimization steps along some unknown cost function. We are in an interesting place right now! Love seeing people try something new!
#moa
@PessoaBrain @kristinmbranson The US: Useful Screens.
(Looking forward to the outcome of this experiment. Also wonder if Nelson Spruston and Brett Mensch were involved or what their view on this approach to poster sessions is.)
@albertcardona @PessoaBrain Ya, I'm in Virginia USA. We will see how it goes! It is clear that no one would ever come up with this idea from scratch, but I think it went from paper posters, to virtual poster sessions where presenters gave short talks then answered questions at like 30-min intervals (these were the highlights of the HHMI meetings for me), to this as they try to bring what worked well virtually to an in-person meeting. When I was a postdoc, people would attach tablets to their posters at CV conferences to show videos.
@kristinmbranson @albertcardona @PessoaBrain There were a few of these at SfN a few years ago as well. Showing videos was an advantage as you said, and there was another weird advantage: they were placed a little higher than the posters, so even when there was a crowd, people weren’t blocking the view and everyone could still see. That’s not unique to screens but it’s a bit harder to hang a paper poster up high :)
@mishaahrens @albertcardona @PessoaBrain Interesting! I played with one of these today when I walked by. They're interactive with touch screens. You can be like a TV weatherman and expand areas, play videos, which is pretty fun, but means they can't be *that* high up.
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I know, I'm a neighbor at Univ Maryland, College Park, we all now of Janelia :-)
@PessoaBrain @albertcardona Greetings from across the river!
@kristinmbranson While this gives much more flexibility on the format, I would be worried about the energy footprint of having so many screens on for multiple hours. Especially since last generations screens (like 4K) have typically higher energy consumption. I also see the risk to attract more people with visually appealing content, rather than good science, which was readily possible with posters, but even more with digital content !
@LauLauThom Good point! I've noticed that the monitors have been on all day as well.
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what country is that?? 😅