----------------------------------------------- Further details and suggestions about e-posters ----------------------------------------------- Your e-poster will be 30 minutes during which you will have complete control over a large TV screen located at one corner of the poster room. This opportunity will be in addition to your static (traditional) poster, but the two will not be physically close. The static poster will be displayed all week, until Thurs. 10:50am. The e-poster will occur during the time assigned to you in the program. You should plug in your own computer via your HDMI or VGA connector and do whatever you wish for your allotted 30 minutes. Then please unplug and turn the TV over to the next presenter. If you are not sure of how to use this freedom we offer the following advice. The concept of an e-poster is still new, and there is no consensus of a "correct" way to use your allotted time. The intended purpose of an e-poster session is to highlight aspects of your work that are difficult to convey via the usual format of a static poster. Mostly, this means providing animations of your figures, or high quality versions of difficult-to-print figures, or more details of specific aspects that couldn't fit in your static poster. We have even seen people open up IDL during their sessions and start coding. It really is up to you. You have at your disposal a very large, high definition screen that you may use as you see fit. With that said, here are several examples that we have seen people try. All are a little different, and all are acceptable. 1) Simply display a pdf of your static poster, and have animations of relevant figures. These do not need to be embedded; you can just Alt-Tab between your pdf application and your media player, as needed. 2) Adapt your poster to a mini-talk format, in powerpoint/keynote/etc. 3) Dispense with all notion of narrative, and simply display a set of movies or figures to serve as the focus of a conversation. Whatever you decide to do, it may help to keep in mind that an e-poster session involves a small audience (5-10) and is a format that lends itself to interaction and discussion. We feel the best e-posters are those that take advantage of that fact.