Here is the video of Jacob LeBlanc’s presentation at the Pervasive 2007 One Minute Madness. If you’re not familiar with the presentation format, here is what happens. The conference has a separate session for poster, video and demonstartion presentations. These three types of contributions are presented in parallel, each at its own station. The One Minute Madness session precedes the poster/video/demo session. In it, one author for each accepted poster, video and demonstration is alloted a one minute slot to pitch his or her contribution to the attendees. The idea is that attendees then select contributions to explore in more detail during the poster/video/demo session. The one minute limit is strictly enforced (this year it was enforced with a hockey stick). At Pervasive 2007 around 30 posters, demos and videos were presented so we had about 30 one-minute presentations in a row. Thus the name one-minute madness.
Btw, I’m sure Jacob will tell you that it takes some preparation to do well at an event like this. It also takes good nerves – look at the audience, it was pretty packed, so you have to be ready to speak in front of a crowd.
Andrew Kun
4 comments
Fekete Andras says:
June 6, 2007 at 11:28 am (UTC -4)
Wow, nice job summarizing your project. Is it possible to have a direct link to your submitted paper so we can find it easily?
andrewkun says:
June 6, 2007 at 3:53 pm (UTC -4)
Andras, you can find the paper here:
http://www.project54.unh.edu/Reference/Download.pm/2596/Document.PDF
Andrew Kun
jeo says:
June 7, 2007 at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
Good job representing P54. I bet it was pretty intimidating. Did you get a lot of questions at the booth? And did anyone get hit with the hockey stick?
jacobleblanc says:
June 7, 2007 at 2:58 pm (UTC -4)
I did get quite a few questions both about Project54 in general as well as the wireless update system. Besides giving interested attendees a quick overview, I also had several in-depth conversations that gave me great insight into my work. In particular, many were interested in the user aspect of the system and how obtrusive/unobtrusive it is. Once the wireless system is deployed to more officers, I will be sure to get some user feedback so I can better answer questions like that.
As for the one-minute madness: only one person went over his time limit, but he was presenting three videos, so they were gentle with the stick.