Conferences & Project54 Andrew Kun on 01 Jun 2007 09:12 am
Jacob LeBlanc’s presentation at Pervasive 2007 One Minute Madness
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
on 06 Jun 2007 at 11:28 am 1.Fekete Andras said …
Wow, nice job summarizing your project. Is it possible to have a direct link to your submitted paper so we can find it easily?
on 06 Jun 2007 at 3:53 pm 2.andrewkun said …
Andras, you can find the paper here:
http://www.project54.unh.edu/Reference/Download.pm/2596/Document.PDF
Andrew Kun
on 07 Jun 2007 at 10:20 am 3.jeo said …
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?
on 07 Jun 2007 at 2:58 pm 4.jacobleblanc said …
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.