We ran a 1-minute madness session today. A dozen iSchool doctoral students gave a 1-minute introductions and/or teasers to their current research or other half-baked ideas that they had. Topics included:
- Interaction and situated mobile technologies
- Effective information visualization for sustainability issues
- Design vocabulary for games played in the home
- On the different strategies and options for scholarly publishing online
- Information behavior in pre-teen online communities
- The difficulty in UI design for a highly-trained expert community that is foreign to the designer
- Designing mobile UIs for the illiterate
- The cultural impact of World of Warcraft
- The information literacy and training for future educators
- Resource finding across disparate depositories (archives, libraries, etc…)
- What is an oral document?
We closed with a discussion about this fast-paced presentation format which has become prevalent in many conferences: UIST, CHI, ASIST, ALA, IUI. We noted that it helps attendees navigate through overwhelming, multi-track programs. The 1 minute format can suggest how interesting the talk will be, how good the speaker is, and what the author thinks is important. The most effect strategies appear to be brief statements, compelling images, and engaging questions that draw the audience into visiting the talk.
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