Franceli: Bienvenidos, mi nombre es Franceli Cibrian de la Universidad de Chapman
en el Sur de California Estados unidos
Alex: and I am Alex Mariakakis from the University of Toronto in Canada
Franceli: And we are your Online Co-Chairs for UbiComp / ISWC 2020!
This year’s conference is being hosted on an event management platform called Whova,
so we would like to take a couple of minutes to explain how you can use Whova to get the
most of your conference experience.
Franceli: First and foremost, Whova has both a website and mobile app.
While we strongly encourage you to use the website to attend the events on your schedule,
the mobile app has some functionality that is unfortunately not available on the website.
For example, you can only view the complete attendee profiles on the mobile app.
Franceli: On the left side of the website, you can find a navigation bar that will take
you to different parts of the website.
Franceli: The most important part of the conference is the Agenda.
This is where you will find a calendar of events, including the paper sessions, social
events, and keynotes.
Note.. that you can set the times to be in the conference time zone
(Eastern Standard Time) or your own time zone.
Franceli: When you open up a paper session or keynote, you will see an embedded Zoom
Webinar where you can listen to the presentations and speakers.
------------------------------ You can go into future sessions and add them
to your personal agenda so you can find them quickly later on.
Franceli: When you scroll down, you will find the list of papers that will be presented
along with author names and rough start times.
To find more information about a particular paper, you can click on the title or the View Details button to the side.
Franceli: Within that page, you can see the authors’ names, the link to the paper,
and a YouTube video teaser if one was provided by the authors.
Shortly after each session, the video at the top will be replaced with the authors’ pre-recorded talks.
If you have a question about a particular
paper before or after the session, you can ask them in the Q&A tool on the right side
of the screen.
Authors should answer these questions at their earliest convenience.
Franceli: If you have a question for the live Q&A panel related to the theme of the session
you should submit them in the Q&A tool
on the main session page next to the embedded Zoom player.
The session chairs and Student Volunteers will only be monitoring the Q&A on this page
during the live Zoom Webinar.
Franceli: Now I’ll hand it over to Alex so he can tell you about the other features
that Whova provides.
Alex: Thanks Franceli!
Many of the social events will take place on a separate website called Gather.Town.
The Mixed Reality Chairs have spent a lot of time creating many fun events to make up
for the lack of face-to-face interaction, so we highly recommend that you attend these
when you can.
You can find the links to these events in Whova, and more information will be provided
during the session that introduces the social events and Gather.Town after our first keynote.
Alex: Back to Whova...If you go to the Attendees tab, you can find everyone who is attending
the conference or associated with a paper unless they have explicitly hidden their presence
You can send people direct messages by clicking
the “Send Message” button below their name.
If the person is an author but has not registered for the conference, you will not be able to
click this button.
As mentioned earlier, full profiles cannot
be viewed on the website due to Whova’s design, but you can pull those up through
the mobile app.
Alex: We also have a Community Board where you can schedule virtual meetups, post job
openings, share articles, or talk about how much you wish you were in Cancun this year.
Alex: In the Exhibitors and Sponsors tabs, you can find more information about the wonderful
organizations that have partnered with our conference this year.
Alex: In the Messages tab, you can have conversations with other attendees, or create groups by
adding more than one person to the same message.
These conversations and groups are private, and you can rename the groups if you like.
Alex: Last but not least, the Logistics tab includes resources that explain the program,
Whova, and Gather.Town in case you need assistance.
Alex: We hope that you will enjoy the networking functionality that is available in Whova ...
Franceli: … and we trust that you will be able to find all information about the papers
and talks you are interested in
Esperemos disfrutes UbiComp/ISWC 2020
Alex: ENJOY UbiComp/ISWC 2020!