How to chair a conference

General Conference Chair

In many critical applications such as airport operations (for capacity planning), military simulations (for tactical training and planning), and medical simulations (for the planning of medical treatment and surgical operations), it is very useful to conduct simulations within physically accurate and visually realistic settings that are represented by real video imaging sequences. Furthermore, ...

Chair design affects how older adults rise from a chair.

OBJECTIVE To determine how modifications of key chair design aspects, such as seat height, posterior seat tilt, backrest recline, seat compressibility, and armrest placement, affect how older adults rise from a chair and the seating comfort they experience. DESIGN Cross-sectional comparison. SETTING Congregate housing facility and university laboratory. SUBJECTS Two groups of volunteers, ...

Welcoming Address from the Conference Chair

From the ICELW'2008 Conference Chair

How to manage a conference special issue

The editors of a special issue have many responsibilities. The first is to determine which authors should be invited to submit extended papers. This is not as simple as looking at the review scores from the conference and choosing the top few papers. For example, I have seen strong papers that have excellent reviews but that also are ‘complete’ and so there is little scope to extend the work. E...