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AN: ED51A-0012    [Abstracts]
TI: The Wearable Poster: What all the Cool Kids will be Doing Next Fall
AU: * Moore, W B
EM: bmoore@ess.ucla.edu
AF: University of California, Los Angeles, 3806 Geology Bldg. BOX 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
AU: * Moore, W B
EM: bmoore@ess.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Space Physics, 3806 Geology Bldg. BOX 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
AB: One of the primary drawbacks to giving a poster is that if you do everything right and present an exciting and interesting idea, you get stuck standing at your poster discussing it the entire session and you miss everything else that's going on. But the poster concept lends itself easily to being transported. From a low-tech solution such as a sandwich-board, to laptop based solutions, concepts that free the presenter from being stuck in one place will be presented and demonstrated. One potential problem of freeing the presenter from a fixed location is actually locating the presentations you want to see. Solutions to this include pager-based hotlists, wi-fi localization techniques, and the simpler ``I will be at this place at this time'' solution currently in use. By allowing the presentation to move with the presenter, interactions will be freer and more spontaneous, information will be more readily shared, and the poster ``session'' will become a dynamic exchange that goes on throughout the meeting, whenever two people with common interests run into each other.
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting