Currently, almost all academic societies and lectures are being forced to be held online due to the Corona disaster.The presentation format is such that participants watch videos recorded by the presenter on demand and give lectures using video conference tools, but the important role of academic societies and lectures is. It is not easy to achieve discussions and new encounters with the people at the venue, which is one of the above, in cyberspace.
Under these circumstances, the 3rd COI Academic Exchange Meeting Executive Committee, led by Assistant Professor Hiroyuki Kai of Tohoku University Advanced Institute of Materials Science, is easy for anyone to use, actively discuss, and enjoy in the with / post corona society. Announced that it has developed a "role-playing game-like" tool to enable online poster sessions.
The tool gives you the freedom to roam the poster session venue, browse posters, and use text chat to comment and ask questions to poster presenters, much like a role-playing game.In addition, participants can exchange opinions with each other and those around them, and an interactive poster session will be realized.It is an application that utilizes the latest web technology, and also has functions such as simultaneous login for more than 100 people and encryption of group chat.
At the 2020rd COI Academic Exchange Meeting, which was co-sponsored by the Tohoku University COI Center and co-sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency on July 7nd and 2rd, 3, as a result of the actual use of this tool, it was online. However, it is said that a lively exchange between the participants was realized.
This tool is provided as open source and is expected to be widely used.The developers have plans to further develop functions such as improving the conversation interface and linking with other applications.
