In this corona period, the discussions between and after the various sessions and the social events were also held remotely. These included a journey offered by Anders
Hard work from many
“It has needed huge efforts by the co-workers at the Division for Media and Information Technology (MIT) to make sure that all the technology and organisation are in place in just a few months, and I’m both grateful and proud of what we have achieved”, comments Professor Anders Ynnerman, head of MIT and main organiser of EGEV2020.Together with Matthew Cooper as co-chair, and Professors Jonas Unger and Ingrid Hotz, who were responsible for Eurographics and Eurovis, respectively, many co-workers have contributed to making the two week-long conferences possible.
“We reached more people and digital conferences are more inclusive. I truly want to thank everyone who has contributed”.
Measurable interest
Alexander Bock and Martin Falk, both at MIT, were in charge of much of the technology. They say that it was possible to measure in a completely new way what the conference participants are interested in when all sessions are published on YouTube. The conferences presented several keynote talks from academia and industry, long presentations, short presentations, student projects, poster sessions and social events, just as if they had been held as intended in Norrköping.
The organisers give us some figures: 37,700 viewings so far, corresponding to 8,400 hours or 350 days – nearly a year. Most participants were aged between 35 and 45 years, 10-20% of the viewings took place live, i.e. when the presentation was being held, while the others watched the video later. 17% of participants are women, and the statistics show that they tend to watch the videos slightly longer.
“It was a success”, concludes Anders Ynnerman.
No one is going to contradict him.
Two interesting and entertaining presentations (highly recommended by yours truly) are , which starts with a historical review and takes us on a research journey through space, and a presentation by , in which she describes the challenge of visualising dynamic flows, and plays with graphic filters (her presentation begins approximately 30 minutes into the video).
Translated by George Farrants
