{"id":1121,"date":"2010-03-26T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:25:57","slug":"amplify-your-conference-with-an-iphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/amplify-your-conference-with-an-iphone-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplify your conference with an iPhone app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?author=4\">Gene Golovchinsky<\/a>, I <a href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=3247\">learned<\/a> of an <a href=\"http:\/\/jweisz.org\/2010\/03\/15\/chi-2010-iphone-app\/\">iphone app<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/chi2010.org\/\">CHI2010<\/a>. What a great way to amplify the conference! Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/jweisz.org\/\">Justin Weisz<\/a> and the rest of the CMU crew.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to browse the proceedings while lounging. The papers I mark show up in my personal schedule and in a reading list. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0389-e1269619404822.png\" alt=\"Paper view\" title=\"paper\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1122\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0393-e1269619292381.png\" alt=\"Personalized conference schedule, generated from my selections\" title=\"program\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1133\" \/><br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s an attractive alternative to making a paper list by hand, using some conferences&#8217; clunky online scheduling tool, or circling events in large conference handouts. If you keep an iPhone\/iPod in your pocket, the app could be used during the conference, but I might also want to print out my sessions on an index card. So exporting the list would be a good enhancement: in addition to printing, I&#8217;d like to send the list of readings directly to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">Zotero<\/a> (or another bibliographic manager). <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chi2010.org\/attending\/advance-program.html\">advance program<\/a> embedded on the conference website still has some advantages: it&#8217;s easier to find out more about session types (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/chi2010.org\/authors\/cfp-altchi.html\">alt.chi<\/a>). Courses and workshops stand out online, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0390-e1269619370281.png\" alt=\"map of conference locations\" title=\"map\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0391-e1269619350138.png\" alt=\"searching the proceedings\" title=\"search\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wayfinding is hard in on-screen PDFs, so I hope that in the long run scholarly proceedings become more screen-friendly. While at present I find an iPhone appealing for reading fiction, on-screen scholarly reading is harder: for one thing, it&#8217;s not linear.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see integrated, reader-friendly environments for conference proceedings, with full-text papers. I envision moving seamlessly between the proceedings and an offline reading environment. Publishers can already support offline reading on a wide variety of smartphones: the HTML5-based <a href=\"http:\/\/ibisreader.com\/\">Ibis Reader<\/a> uses <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EPUB\">ePub<\/a>, a standard based on xHTML and CSS. There&#8217;s no getting around the download step, but an integrated environment can be &#8220;download first, choose later&#8221;. I&#8217;ve never had much luck with CD-ROM and USB-based conference proceedings, except in pulling off 2-3 PDFs of papers to read later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Gene Golovchinsky, I learned of an iphone app for CHI2010. What a great way to amplify the conference! Thanks to Justin Weisz and the rest of the CMU crew. I was happy to browse the proceedings while lounging. The papers I mark show up in my personal schedule and in a reading list. 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