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Comment:
I think a symposium, workshop, or edited volume on anthropometric methods would be more likely to attract experts because it has a finite scope and it's an event that is recognized and rewarded by most employers inside and outside academia.
Reply from BrianSherwoodJones
My answer is - it's a sort of experiment.
You may well be right. I don't know. I offer the following reasons for trying it.
- the world is changing and new methods of communication might work; email is a 'killer app' everyone depends on it but this sort of multi-way conversation is handled much better by a wiki than email; getting people off email will be quite a job.
- getting people - especially non-academics - to attend events has become much harder in the UK. I don't know about the US.
- there are people who contribute to edited volumes but they are also getting rarer.
- The cfp for next year's ergonomics society conference closes 12th August. A whole session or workshop on anthropometric methods would need to be in a decent shape well before then. The timescales (and cost) of real world collaboration are getting harder to accommodate.
- the idea was to get people writing standards to find out what their users needed. this would overlap with sorting out the dangerously ignorant but not much.
1 adding it to the MarESIG experiment was close to free so if it doesn't work and I/we find out why then there is a nett gain.
There are some success stories - testimonials from real life situations follow:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStoryOfAstroGrid
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStoryOfCmed
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStoryOfDisney
More below.
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories
-- BrianSherwoodJones - 06 Jul 2005
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