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Housing | • PRESENTATION FORMATS • General Notice All those submitting abstracts, except for the pre-workshops, are expected to pay a registration fee for the meeting. There are a few complimentary registrations for those coming from developing countries that wish to present, and a reduced rate for students. Please communicate with Suzanne Stensaas if you are an international faculty member seeking a complimentary registration.
The pre-workshops, half-day or full-day, will take place on June 24-25, 2003. Please indicate in your proposal which length is more suitable. Half-day is usually 3-4 hours and full-day is 7-8 hours with break and lunch. There are two types: (1) Tutorial/demonstration with
interaction and questions from the audience with no hands-on If you prefer to do a hands-on event, please suggest the maximum number of people that you can manage in the session. Attendees will pay an additional fee to register for the pre-workshops. Pre-workshops are not venues for commercial promotion of products. The principle person presenting the pre-workshop will receive compensation for one night's hotel and a free registration to the conference on June 26-28. Workshops with fewer than 6 registrants will be cancelled and the presenter and registrants notified. Pre-workshop instructors are expected to install and test their software on June 23 or June 24 or make special arrangements.
Please note the campus is wireless, so if you are bringing your own laptop and if you have a wireless network card, bring it and you can connect to the Internet from anywhere on campus. Drexel staff will help you configure your computer to work with the Drexel system (details here when available). Drexel will have cards to install in some computers as well as loaner computers (not confirmed). Demonstrations are hands-on using a computer provided in the demonstration area or from the demonstrator's personal portable. When possible, a stand-alone monitor will be provided for those with laptops for easier viewing. For those with Ethernet cards, a fast connection to the Internet through the university system is available. Those demonstrating from a Zip disc or CD can use computers provided by the university. No projection is provided at the demonstrations. The demonstrators are in 3 large contiguous computer labs. Attendees circulate and talk to the individual presenters. Your demonstration will be scheduled for Thursday OR Friday afternoon. If you are submitting more than one demonstration, please advise to avoid scheduling conflicts. Demonstrators are expected to set up their demos during the lunch period on the day of their demo and to be present in the demonstration area during the entire time allotted.
Presentations occur in the morning and are brief to
accommodate as many presenters as possible. Part of the success of the meeting is NOT
having concurrent sessions, so that all attendees get to learn what others are doing by
networking and following up during unscheduled times. There are always a greater number of
excellent submissions in this category than can be accommodated. The program committee
will use a variety of criteria in selecting the morning programs. Factors such as the
universality of interest, new technology or techniques of general interest, novel
approaches, and evaluation results are all factors that influence the committee.
Auditorium presenters may be asked to demonstrate their programs or techniques in the
afternoon, extending their interaction with the group. Auditorium presentations will
include projection equipment for Mac, PC, CD, Web, Video NTSC or PAL, slides (for two
years there have been no slides), overheads (there have not been any of these
either!). If using PowerPoint, be certain of your version--and just in case have it loaded
on your computer or bring it with you. PowerPoint will be installed on the auditorium
computers, but there are occasionally version incompatibilities. Auditorium speakers are
expected to install and test their software in the auditorium the afternoon before their
presentation on June 25, 26 or 27.. Demonstrators must register for the meeting.
These are informal Question and Answer gatherings where the person proposing the session acts as moderator on a topic of interest to them. This can be broad and philosophical (cognition and software design) or specific (Java, XML). A few introductory remarks (maximum 5-10 minutes) can start the session to focus the group's attention. These sessions are offered on Thursday and Friday. Some may have 30 and others 10 participants. If you want to start a special interest group, this is a good place to gather interested people together. No equipment is wanted or needed for these. They are discussions that occur as the demonstrators and computer lab support people help set up the demonstrations. Box lunches will be provided for you to take to a session of your choice or to enjoy in the sun of the quadrangle. Breakout session leaders must register for the meeting. If you have a group (max 4 including yourself) who would like to focus the group's attention and involve the audience as well, you can submit a topic with issues and proposed panelists. All panel participants as well as the chairperson must register for the meeting.
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