We organize digital poster sessions, in which you can choose your presentation style freely.
Every style is welcomed -- a demonstration of your software, slides or movies, a combination of a demonstration and an ordinary paper poster, or a paper poster only.
Every NTCIR-7 active task participant has to make a presentation at digital poster session irrespective of oral presentation. If you are participating more than one task, please prepare one presentation for each task.

Instructions for Digital Poster Presentations are as follow. Please read them carefully. Every active participant needs to submit a form to ntc-poster by Nov 15 Oct 31, 2008.

1. Digital Poster Session
2. Set up & Tear down
3. Spaces
4. Presentations
5. Others
6. Digital Poster Session Request Form
7. In Advance Shipment

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1. Digital Poster Session

We have two sessions of the Digital Poster, which are held in Conference Room on the 2nd floor. You are requested to assign a presenter to be present next to the poster during the following session time for questions and discussion.

Lunch time, Wednesday, Dec.17 (DAY-2): CCLQA, PATMN, EVIA
Lunch time, Thursday, Dec.18 (DAY-3): IR4QA, PATMT
Lunch time, Friday, Dec.19 (DAY-4): MOAT, MuST

2. Set up & Tear down

Please print out your poster in advance and bring it.

You can prepare your presentation in the morning (9:00-12:00) of the day
of your presentation in Conference Room.

You are supposed to complete clearing up your posters by the following time:
Dec.17 (DAY-2): CCLQA, PATMN, EVIA: by 18:30
Dec.18 (DAY-3): IR4QA, PATMT:by 18:30
Dec.19 (DAY-4): MOAT, MuST: by 17:00

As Conference Room is open throughout the meeting, you can clean up your
presentation freely.

3. Spaces

A poster board with a poster number will be provided for each presentation. The number of your board is task name (e.g. MOAT) concatenated with participant number (e.g. 1).
Please print out a poster of the appropriate size for the board in advance and bring it.
Size:
board:width 90cm x height 190cm
table: width 90cm x depth 60cm x height 70cm
(You can use a table if you have made a request in advance.)

Posters can be displayed on the board using pushpins only. No tape or glue can be used. Pins will be provided.

4. Demonstration

Demonstration with personal computers is welcomed. If you plan to make such a demonstration and/or any kind of special exhibition, please let us know the following by the form in section 6 and send it to ntc-poster.

* Wireless Internet access will be available at the demonstration site.

5. Others

1. Any questions or requests that are not included in the Request Form, shall be sent directly to ntc-poster.
   
2. Poster allocation and wireless LAN access information will be announced on the workshop web site later.
   

6. Digital Poster Session Request Form

If a group is going to present more than one poster, the requests should be specified for each poster.


( ) We will do a demonstration and/or exhibition.

( ) We will do a poster presentation

( ) We will send posters and/or other equipments in advance.
We send: (_____________________________)
from: (______________________________)

( ) We have a special request of board assignment, etc.
(______________________________________________________)

( ) We need a table (width 90cm x depth 60cm x height 70cm)

( ) We need _______ electrical outlets (100V/50Hz)
with estimated total power of _______ W

( ) We need Internet access (through wireless LAN)
* If you need a cable connection to the Internet for some reason, please specify it as special equipment you use.

( ) We have a plan to use any special equipment, which is/are ______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

Participating Group Name:
Group's ID:
Primary Investigator:
Contact Persion (or Your name):
E-mail Address:
Participating Task:

7. In Advance Shipment

If you need to send your poster and/or other equipment to the workshop site beforehand, please let us know of it and make sure the equipment arrives during 13:00-16:00 on Dec. 16. The address you send them is

To:
NTCIR Project Office
National Institute of Informatics, Rm 1309
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8430 Japan
c/o Ruiko Homma (Ms.), Miho Sugimoto (Ms.)
email: ntc-poster
phone:�@+81-3-4212-2750 fax: +81-3-4212-2751

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