How Do Posters Work?

Poster presenters will be given a booth in Gather Town which will look similar to the following:

 

Objects

In your booth, you can have up to 4 different types of objects depending on what type of material you are submitting.

Image

With images you can:

• Submit a traditional image style poster or slide of information (or a link to an image), in a similar style to this example.
• Submit a photo or graphic that is used to support other objects in your booth

All image objects will be represented as Posters in your booth. When the user interacts with the poster, they will then see the full-sized version of your image.

 

Document

With documents you can:

• Submit a Google Slides presentation that attendees can then look through.
• Provide a link to a published Google Docs Document or a link to a PDF in Dropbox/Google Drive that attendees can read through

Any document objects will be represented either as Posters or Documents depending on what is submitted. When the user interacts with the poster/document, it will then load your slideshow/document for the attendee to read through.

 

Video

With videos you can:

• Record and provide a link to your own video (Must be a link as there is no facility to upload video files in Gather Town)
• Submit a link to an existing YouTube/Vimeo video that supports your material.

All videos will be represented through a TV. Attendees then interact with the TV to watch the video.

 

Audio

With audio you can:

• Record and provide a link to your own audio file (Must be a link as there is no facility to upload audio files in Gather Town)
• Submit a link to an existing Soundcloud audio track/playlist.

All audio objects will be represented as a grammarphone. Attendees can hear the audio by interacting with a gramophone object.

 

Website

Finally with website objects you can:

1. Submit a link to a Google Form or another form to allow attendees to complete a survey
2. Submit a link to another website that supports your material

However, unlike other objects, you can also make your own website which offers the following advantages:

1. It allows you to serve text, images, videos, and documents without needing multiple different objects in your booth
2. You can link to other web pages, websites and materials from within the website object

All websites will be represented in the booth as computer objects. Attendees interact with the computer object which then loads the website which they can then use in the same way as a normal website

Please note though all websites (including any other websites you link to from within the website object) must use https:// and must be embeddable (which can be tested at https://iframetester.com/)

 

How Many Objects Can I Have In My Booth?

You can have up to four different objects in your booth as long as they are all relevant to the subject matter of your poster. However, what type of objects these are is entirely up to you. So you may:

• Have four of the same type of object (so four different images or four different videos)
• Have a mixture of two or three different objects (so perhaps a webpage, but with then two videos and an image to support it)
• Have four different types of objects (so a webpage, a video, a document and an image)

Or you could choose just to have your own website as one object that would then be capable of representing all of the other images, video/audio and document that you would otherwise need to submit.

We would generally recommend submitting 3-4 different objects UNLESS they can all be represented in a single website object

 

What Can I Present In My Poster?

In terms of subject matter for your poster, we are seeking a balance between deeply technical posters aimed at experts as well as more accessible posters that may be of interest to students and new developers.
Topics for posters can include, but are not limited, to:

• Digital Signal Processing
• Audio synthesis and analysis
• Music technology, DAWs, audio plug-ins
• Game audio
• 3D and VR/AR audio
• Creative coding
• Other applications of audio programming (e.g. telecommunications, multimedia, medicine, biology)
• Design and evaluation of audio software and hardware systems
• Programming languages used for audio development (e.g. C++, Rust, Python)
• Software development tools, techniques, and processes
• Performance, optimisation, and parallelisation
• Audio development on mobile platforms
• Embedded, Linux, and bare metal audio programming
• Low-latency and real-time programming
• Best practices in audio programming
• Testing and QA
• Educational approaches and tools for audio and DSP programming
• Planning and navigating a career as an audio developer

 

How Do I Present The Booth?

While attendees will be able to access your poster at any time during the conference, attendees find it much more engaging when the author of the poster is available to discuss and answer questions.

As such, we ask when making your poster application to indicate all times that you would be available to present your poster. We will then publish these times both on the ADC Schedule and on your booth in Gather Town. If you are not available during the times specified then that is fine but please fill out the form to indicate this.

Then at the times that you indicated, you will be expected to attend your booths and discuss your material with any attendees who come to your booth. To do this, you will need to:

1. Connect to Gather Town
2. Go to your booth and enter the private conversation space of your booth. You will probably want to stand to the side of your object(s).
3. Turn on your microphone and webcam

 

How Do I Apply?

Next you will need to fill out our online application form.

Apply

Please note the following:

• The deadline for applications is Monday 14th October and any applications made after this date are unlikely to be accepted.
• All Poster material is then expected to be received by Monday 21st October
  
• Finally you are expected to check your poster in Gather Town before the ADCxGather Event starts on the 1st November