Staying Alert in a Dark Room by Participant Activation and Interaction
Shiftwork- & Working Time-Symposium Bingo
How does it work? - Just like any other bingo! You attend the Symposium and mark those squares that describe what is going on. When you get five in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal), you yell “Bingo!"
Frida dances better than all the young ones |
You can hear the speaker through the partition in the next room (and she´s much more interesting) |
Somebody has their entire talk written out word for word on their slides |
Excessive use of animation on slides |
Keynote speaker has obviously lost track of which conference they are at. |
Speaker interrupts their answer to a question to ask what it was. |
Somebody makes the thinly veiled suggestion that what was just presented has already been done |
Simon asks the first question for three talks in a row |
The next speaker can be seen preparing the slides for his/her talk in the front row |
Session chair has to ask the first question and no other questions follow |
Panel speakers present only their own work |
Attendees subjected to partying noise at night to facilitate circadian inversion. |
Red text on blue background |
Kazu secretly prepares beautiful Origami |
Zander seemed to fall asleep, but hadn’t |
Main organizer pays a hurried visit to the auditorium |
At least three slides in sequence filled with formulae |
Speaker inadvertently corrects for dependent variable in regression analysis |
Speaker keeps turning his head towards screen, and away from the microphone |
“in the future work we intend to conduct further research” |
Pointer doesn’t work |
Somebody bumps into the projector while walking out in the middle of a talk |
More than 5 “adjusted odd ratios (aOR)” in one talk |
Shift system change study fails to mention simultaneous changes in working conditions |
Email notification window keeps popping up on presenter’s screen |
Somebody asks a question and takes three minutes to get to the point |
A poster is an exact copy of the abstract in the proceedings |
“Thank you for an interesting talk, but have you considered ......” |
Speaker points at his/her laptop screen, but nobody knows what’s on it |
Attendees subjected to daytime dark to facilitate circadian inversion |
Students fall asleep because they partied the night before |
Speaker has to skip ten slides because he/she’s running out of time |
“You can’t see that on the projection, but…” |
More than 100 words on one slide |
Speaker forgets how she/he started the sentence, but soldiers on regardless |
Organisers embarrassed by loud partying all night |
Chair has to translate question from English into English before speaker understands |
Record number of attendees (3, including chair and speaker) present at first talk after the Banquet. |
Unidentified attendee spotted looking at a poster. |
Organisers embarrassed by mysterious disappearance of beer. |
Chair announces change in speaker order to thwart parallel session switchers |
Speaker issues 3D glasses to facilitate interpretation of graphs. |
Drones of attendees depart early for their final trysts |
Norwegians abandon sledges and continue on foot in race to Lido |
Torbjorn declines to commit himself |
Speaker performs a factor analysis with oblique rotation and promptly falls over |
Questioner asks why the “I” is missing from KSS |
Committee fails to get through agenda and most items held over until next symposium |
Version 1.0 Feb 10th, 2011 as to be published: Gärtner, J., S. Folkard, and L. Di Milia. Staying Alert in a Dark Room by Participant Activation and Interaction. in 20th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time "Biological mechanisms and risk management in the 24h society". J. Axelsson. 2011. June 28-July 1, 2011 Stockholm, Sweden. - Idea adapted from Robert Kosara, VisWeek 2010.
The winner of 2011 Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time is rewarded with a kiss from the President.