Web Conference Research Articles

Upcoming SIGWEB supported conferences

The Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web, SIGWEB was created in 1989 to support the community participating in the annual ACM Hypertext Conference. In its fourth decade, SIGWEB continues its efforts to support a wide range of communities and conferences. Recently, the Web Conference's legal and financial sponsorship was transferred to SIGWEB and thus joins the family of seven annual conferences in 2022. SIGWEB supports several specialized conferences, short courses, and workshops of different sizes, as well as the annual Hypertext Conference. SIGWEB sponsored conferences focus on timely topics in applied and computational hypertext and Web disciplines and provide a place for members and the entire applied Hypermedia and Web community to exchange ideas and to meet with and expand their network of colleagues. In this article, we provide a brief overview of SIGWEB sponsored conferences, in addition to events that are in cooperation with SIGWEB. Due to the current Corona crisis, many event organizers opted for an online conference format or allow remote participation. These conferences are marked accordingly.

Public availability of results of ClinicalTrials.gov-registered expanded access studies.

Expanded access is the use of investigational treatments outside of clinical trials. Results of expanded access studies provide insights into how investigational treatments work in real-world settings. The objective of this study was to evaluate public availability of results of expanded access studies. Eligible expanded access studies were identified in ClinicalTrials.gov (CT.gov). Publications matching records of individual studies were searched for in Medline and Embase. In addition, we assessed whether results of the included studies were publicly available from other sources including CT.gov, sponsor web sites and conference proceedings. After median time of 49.5 (interquartile range, 36.7-64.7) months from study completion, the results of 69 out of the 152 included studies (45.39%) were publicly available, either as a journal publication (53 studies; 34.87%) or from other source (16 studies; 10.52%). The percentage of studies whose results were available as a journal publication after 12, 24, 36 and 48 months from study completion was 13.2, 21.1, 33.1 and 35.7%, respectively. The percentage of studies whose results were publicly available from any source (including journal publications) at 12, 24, 36 and 48 months were 19.1, 29.6, 43.2 and 47.5%, respectively. Results of a considerable proportion of expanded access studies are not publicly available. In view of the growing importance of real-world data, sponsors and principal investigators of those studies should always consider making their findings public.

Cognitive and Physical Assessment in the Elderly while Maintaining Social Distance Using A Web Conference System: A Pilot Study

Background: We studied whether cognitive and physical assessments of the elderly can be carried out as reliably via a web conference system with social distancing as they can face-to-face. Methods: We enrolled 10 male and 1 female elderly Japanese aged 69-80 years. The application of an audiovisual technology setup using the Zoom web conference system enabled assessment with the examinee and examiner in separate rooms. For assessment of cognitive function, 2 personal computers (PCs), one with a webcam and one with a document camera, were located in the examinee room (one shows the examinee’s face and the other shows the drawing the examinee made on the desk). The examiner’s PC with webcam was connected to the web conference system (Zoom as a host). For assessment of physical function, one PC with webcam was located in the examinee room to show the examinee’s movement during the physical function test (5-m walking speed), and the examiner assessed physical strength (upper grip, chair standing 30 seconds (CS-30)) via another PC through a video camera-image connected by video-capture board. The examiner’s PC with webcam was connected to the web conference system (Zoom as a host) for oral advice. An action camera was attached to the waist of the examinee and 5-m walking speed was assessed from pictures of the floor and the examinee’s lower limbs after walking. Results: The relationship between the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a face-to-face setting and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Japanese version (MoCA-J) via web conference was similar to the relationship between the MMSE via web conference and MoCA-J face-to-face. The physical assessment (5-m walking test at maximum speed, upper grip, CS-30) via web conference was similar the results with face-to-face assessment. Conclusion: These results suggest that a web conference system for measurement of cognitive and physical function is equally beneficial to face-to-face assessment.

Virtual Study-Abroad Through Web Conferencing: Sharing Knowledge and Building Cultural Appreciation in Nursing Education and Practice.

With a focus on building global citizens, a U.S. and Norwegian academic collaborative partnership fostered clinical learning experiences addressing cultural and health care comparisons. High-impact educational practices integrated into international clinical experiences, combined with virtual global learning classrooms, highlighted the Sustainable Development Goals. Given nursing education's requirements, devising innovative strategies expanded global learning in brief but transformative experiences while integrating nontraveling students, especially relevant considering current pandemic-related travel restrictions. We developed an educational experience pairing U.S. students (17 in person; 64 through web conference) and Norwegian students (50 in person; 3 for web conference) in population health experiences, providing required clinical hours and a shared cultural exchange. Integration of nontraveling students in joint virtual global experiences broadened the global learning opportunity for all. This work offers insight into how faculty used a virtual global learning experience as a synergistic tool with traditional study abroad.

Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients

IntroductionAffective flattening is one of the main symptoms in Schizophrenia, several studies highlighted the importance of social skills training in improving negative symptoms. However, Covid-19 pandemic is changing our life with limitations in social contacts and in psychosocial rehabilitation; pre COVID-19 strategies should be implemented with new ones.ObjectivesTo evaluate the practicability of a narrative method in improving affective flattening, general social skills in stable outpatients with a diagnosis for schizophrenia during Italian lockdown in March – April 2020MethodsOutpatients with a stable psychopathology have been involved in a narrative project during lockdown. We asked to patients to write daily a story telling about their experience and emotions and send us their diary. Every week the diary has been used to discuss their story telling in group in a web conference. At end of the experience we administered a survey about the enjoyment and the subjective benefits.ResultsFrom ten people with a known psychopathology we recruited six patients. All participants completed the project and all of them referred for a subjective benefit as to feel more reassured by the contact with their psychiatrist. Four patients explicated initial discomfort about share their experiences in group. One patient started to share his own thoughts about mental disease on social media.ConclusionsNarrative Psychiatry might be a pragmatic opportunity to implement conventional strategies to contrast affective flattening and negative symptoms in Schizophrenia. Sharing digital story telling is a useful method in lockdown and general social restriction condition.

Abstract P856: Contributors to Internal Primary Stroke Center Transfer Delays: Factors Beyond Stroke Coordinators’ Control

Background: Stroke coordinators often are challenged to transfer patients to higher levels of care, facing internal system, transport, and comprehensive stroke center (CSC) factors that may slow the transfer process. We aimed to understand the internal challenges faced by stroke coordinators at primary stroke centers/acute stroke ready hospitals (PSC/ASRH) in the transfer process. Methods: Six national focus groups with PSC/ASRH staff experienced with stroke transfers were conducted by web conference. Interviews were conducted using pre-scripted open-ended questions; information was recorded and data were transcribed for theme identification. Results: Participants were from Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, and West Coast USA. Internal PSC/ASRH problems were tied exclusively to physicians: Emergency department (ED) physicians’ lack knowledge of how/when to order advanced imaging; delays initiating telemedicine guidance were common; and, negative attitudes towards stroke emergencies among “tenured” ED physicians were identified. All participants noted that they were compliant with door-to-noncontrast CT and alteplase treatment time metrics, however, radiologists commonly used the full 2-hours allotted for CTA and CTP reads, and many telemedicine neurologists refused to review/interpret advanced imaging choosing to rely on the local general radiologists’ formal interpretation. Conclusions: Major factors contributing to internal PSC/ASRH transfer delays are exclusively physician-based. Physician education, standardized algorithms for advanced imaging selection, more-timely regulatory metrics for advanced imaging interpretation, and improved telemedicine physician expertise and guidance would improve transfer timeliness in these centers.

Abstract P166: The Primary Stroke Center Transfer Experience to Higher Levels of Care: A Qualitative Study

Background: Transfer times from primary stroke centers/acute stroke ready hospitals (PSCs/ASRHs) to higher levels of care have been shown to be excessive in many cases, promoting some to believe that bypass regulations should be instituted. Yet barriers to rapid transfer remain undescribed in the literature. The purpose of this work is to investigate these issues and the locus of control for transfer time delays. Methods: Six national focus groups with PSC/ASRH staff experienced with stroke transfers were conducted by web conference. Interviews were conducted using pre-scripted open-ended questions; information was recorded, and data were transcribed, for theme identification. Results: Participants were from Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, and West Coast USA. Data were grouped into 3 main categories representing where transfer problems initiated. Themes emerging within the Internal PSC/ASRH Category were exclusively emergency department (ED) physician focused including knowing how/when to use advanced imaging and telemedicine resources. Of note, all participants were compliant with door-to-CT and treatment time metrics. Within the Transport Category , themes included inadequate time-to-response by ground and air ambulances, and specialty transport costs. Within the Internal Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) Category , themes included complex communication, overwhelmed systems, and poor guidance on patient selection. Conclusions: While ED physician contributors to transfer delays are within the control of PSCs/ASRHs, more challenging factors to rapid transfer include factors within transport systems and CSCs themselves. Quantification of these factors is warranted to support transfer system redesign with rapid access to care.

Preface to the 3rd TALENTA-CEST 2020

The 3rd TALENTA Conference on Engineering Science and Technology 2020 (The 3rd TALENTA-CEST 2020) is an International Conference that offers opportunity of knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration between engineers, scientists and technologists as well as academician and researcher working in the wide areas of engineering. This conference is organized by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Indonesia as an annual event to celebrate the anniversary of Faculty Engineering.The committee has chosen the specific theme Innovation for Sustainability Transitions in Industry and Community for this year event, but the conference itself covered wide area of engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Architecture. The 3rd TALENTA-CEST 2020 program consists of interactive presentation sessions and keynote presentations from experts in the related field.This year, the 3rd TALENTA-CEST 2020 was be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic from 28-29 September 2020 through a web conference. Although the conference could not be conducted face-to-face this activity was still carried out as the previous year. The conference was attended by five keynote speakers including: Prof. Dr. Ir. Mohd. Hamdi bin Abd Shukor from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Prof. Dr. Ir. Nukman bin Yusoff from University of Malaya, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nabil Hayeemasae from Prince of Songkla University, Ir. Seri Maulina, M.Si, Ph.D and Dr. Ir. Meilita Tryana Sembiring, MT from Universitas Sumatera Utara, which allocated in a plenary session. During the conference, 143 authors were presented their papers in 10 parallel sessions. The number of papers that submitted on the OCS USU website were 152 papers, 9 papers were rejected and 143 papers were received which were presented in the parallel session. Details of participants who attended the conference were from: Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), University of Malaya (UM), Prince of Songkla University, Universitas Tangerang Selatan (UTS), Universitas Mercu Buana (UMB), Southern Technical University-Basra Iraq, and Universitas Gunadarma.Hopefully, all articles presented in this conference could give good contribution in the field of engineering.Medan, September 27, 2020ChairmanProf. Dr. Eng. Ir. Irvan, M.Si.List of Committee Structure are available in this pdf.

Upcoming SIGWEB supported conferences

The Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web, SIGWEB was created in 1989 to support the community participating in the annual ACM Hypertext Conference. In its fourth decade, SIGWEB continues its efforts to support a wide range of communities and conferences. Recently, the Web Conference's legal and financial sponsorship was transferred to SIGWEB and thus joins the family of seven annual conferences in 2022. SIGWEB supports several specialized conferences, short courses, and workshops of different sizes, as well as the annual Hypertext Conference. SIGWEB sponsored conferences focus on timely topics in applied and computational hypertext and Web disciplines and provide a place for members and the entire applied Hypermedia and Web community to exchange ideas and to meet with and expand their network of colleagues. In this article, we provide a brief overview of SIGWEB sponsored conferences, in addition to events that are in cooperation with SIGWEB. Due to the current Corona crisis, many event organizers opted for an online conference format or allow remote participation. These conferences are marked accordingly.

Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Single-blind / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other Single-blind • Conference submission management system: via conference web site and conference email • Number of submissions received: 72 • Number of submissions sent for review: 72 • Number of submissions accepted: 69 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 95.8 • Average number of reviews per paper: 1 • Total number of reviewers involved: 36 • Any additional info on review process: the review process was according to the guidelines given by JPCS. Each paper was reviewed by habilitated reviewer and by a person form the organizing committee for technical quality. The average review process time was about a month. In all cases at least minor revisions were required. Contact person for queries: Name : Nikolay Nedyalkov NedyalklovAffiliation: Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesEmail : nnned@ie.bas.bg

Programming course for health science as a strategy to engage students during the coronavirus pandemic.

Programming is an important skill for different areas of knowledge. While in the past, programming skills were much more related to fields of computer sciences and engineering, today, professionals from different areas benefit from the ability to write codes for different applications. Furthermore, programming stimulates logical thinking, which impacts other personal abilities. Health science students have limited exposure to programming during their studies. Aware of this and considering the prolonged time in social distancing in Brazil due to the SARS-COV2 pandemic in 2020, we organized an outreach course dedicated to teaching introductory concepts of programming for health science students. The activity was developed fully online using the Zoom web conference agent, lasting 12 wk (8 synchronous classes, 15 synchronous hours in total), and attended by 27 undergraduate and graduate students from two different universities. A collaborative problem-based learning and group-learning methodology were developed through asynchronous homework and mainly online synchronous activities. In this article, we describe our approach and provide some suggestions for replicating the course in other universities. We observed that the activities of the outreach course improved programming skills and confidence for most of the students. More importantly, it piqued their interest enough to motivate them to continue to practice writing and testing their programs. We concluded that an outreach course dedicated to programming promoted improvements in programming skills in health science students. Furthermore, the program was an opportunity to keep the students active in science while working from their homes during the pandemic.

2020年度第1回東海支部発表会 第1回Web講演会 開催報告

2020年度第1回東海支部発表会 第1回Web講演会 開催報告

Intercontinental Multidisciplinary Oncology Videoconferencing for Rare and Complex Cancer: An Alternative to Systematic Transfer

To report our experience of intercontinental multidisciplinary oncology videoconferencing between the French mainland and South Pacific to discuss rare and/or complex cancer cases. On the first and third Friday of each month, all participants connected between 6:30 am and 8:00 am GMT to discuss using a web conference service. Between November 2019 and April 2020, 99 cases concerning 78 patients were discussed. Oncology subspecialties required were sarcoma (n = 36), digestive (n = 29), dermatology (n = 5), gynecology (n = 5), breast (n = 5), urology (n = 5), hematology (n = 5), ENT (n = 3), thoracic (n = 3), thyroid (n = 2), and pediatric (n = 1). Median patient age was 58 years, 41 were female (53%), 37 were male (47%), and 43 had a metastatic disease (55%). Following discussion, 16 patients (21%) were transferred to the French mainland. Reasons for transfer were requirement for complex surgery (n = 11) and need for specialized diagnostic biopsy (n = 5). Fifty-six patients were treated locally, with systemic chemotherapy (n = 36), surveillance (n = 8), surgery (n = 8), radiotherapy (n = 3), or endoscopy (n = 1). Direct benefits for patients treated in their local facility included strategy changes (surveillance or surgery contraindication, n = 9), targeted therapy decision (n = 14), immunotherapy decision (n = 9), and diagnostic or metastatic status corrections (n = 4). Six patients are still awaiting decision. Using real-time intercontinental multidisciplinary oncology videoconferencing to discuss complex or rare cancer cases is reliable and effective for decision making. This concept helped to limit to 21% the need for transfers to the mainland.

Implementation of a visual raise hand function in PowerPoint®.

Objective: Replacing face-to-face lessons by remote teaching due to COVID-19 led to a markedly reduced interaction between students and lecturers. In our opinion, one of the main reasons for this is the raise hand function of the respective web conference systems, which (independent of the system used) results in an unobtrusive signal that can easily be missed by the lecturer. Given the necessary focus on one's own presentation, questions can therefore only be perceived with a considerable time delay and can only be integrated into the lessons to a limited extent.Thus, the idea arose to display question requests of the auditorium by a clear visual signal in PowerPoint® itself. Methodology: With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft PowerPoint® holds an integrated programming language that extends its functionality. Accordingly, VBA was used to program a routine running in the background of the presentation, which periodically retrieves the contents of a web-based “signal file” in a cycle of a few seconds. The content of this signal file, in turn, can be modified by the students by calling up an URL (i.e. from any Internet-capable device) - this results in a (customizable) visual signal in PowerPoint® that is temporarily visible and does not further interfere with the presentation.Conclusion: With the concept presented here, a raise hand function was realized in PowerPoint®, which manifests itself as a clear visual signal independent of the web conferencing system used. This enables the lecturers to respond instantly to questions from the audience during live transmission of lectures.

Upcoming SIGWEB supported conferences

The Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web, SIGWEB was created in 1989 to support the community participating in the annual ACM Hypertext Conference. In its fourth decade, SIGWEB continues its efforts to support a wide range of communities and conferences. Recently, the Web Conference's legal and financial sponsorship was transferred to SIGWEB and thus joins the family of seven annual conferences in 2022. SIGWEB supports several specialized conferences, short courses, and workshops of different sizes, as well as the annual Hypertext Conference. SIGWEB sponsored conferences focus on timely topics in applied and computational hypertext and Web disciplines and provide a place for members and the entire applied Hypermedia and Web community to exchange ideas and to meet with and expand their network of colleagues. In this article, we provide a brief overview of SIGWEB sponsored conferences, in addition to events that are in cooperation with SIGWEB. Due to the current Corona crisis, many event organizers opted for an online conference format or allow remote participation. These conferences are marked accordingly.

ПАНДЕМИЯ COVID-19 КАК КАТАЛИЗАТОР ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ РОССИЙСКОГО УГОЛОВНОГО СУДОПРОИЗВОДСТВА

The article discusses the digitalization of Russian criminal justice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which became a serious global cataclysm in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted the turn of the court practice to other massively available technologies, in particular to court hearings through a web conference. In the midst of the pandemic, Russia has experienced unprecedented cases of court hearings through such messengers as WhatsApp and Skype. Before the pandemic, Russian criminal justice was already using digital technologies, but it had to epand such practices during self-isolation and quarantine. The sudden pandemic has accelerated digitalization of criminal justice, becoming a kind of “point of no return” and a certain catalyst for change.

Modeling knowledge and functional intent for context-aware pragmatic analysis

Nikhita Vedula is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa Science. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University in August 2020, advised by Professor Srinivasan Parthasarathy. She received her bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India in 2015. Her research interests are at the intersection of data mining, natural language processing and social computing. Over the course of her PhD, her research involved designing efficient and novel machine learning and computational linguistic techniques that extract, interpret and transform the vast, unstructured digital content into structured knowledge representations in diverse contexts. She has worked with researchers from interdisciplinary fields such as emergency response, marketing, sociology and psychology. She performed research internships at Nokia Bell Laboratories, Adobe Research and Amazon Alexa AI. Her work has been published at several top data mining conferences such as the Web Conference, SIGIR, WSDM and ICDM. Her work on detecting user intentions from their natural language interactions won the Best paper award at the Web Conference 2020. She was a recipient of a Graduate Research Award (2020), a Presidential Fellowship (2019) and a University Graduate Fellowship (2015) at the Ohio State University. She was also selected as a Rising Star in EECS (2019).

К ВОПРОСУ О РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ПРОЦЕССУАЛЬНЫХ ГАРАНТИЙ ПРАВ СУБЪЕКТОВ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНЫХ ПРАВОНАРУШЕНИЙ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЯ НОВОЙ КОРОНАВИРУСНОЙ ИНФЕКЦИИ (COVID-19)

The article deals with the problematic issues of implementing the procedural rights of participants in proceedings on administrative offenses in the context of restrictive measures aimed at preventing a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). Attention is drawn to the absence in the Russian Code of administrative offences of the rules establishing the possibility to submit to the court documents in electronic kind, including in electronic form that unreasonably restricts the right to judicial protection of subjects of administrative offenses. It is proposed that the procedural part of the Code of administrative offences of the Russian Federation should be supplemented with a relevant norm providing for the possibility of submitting documents, appeals, and complaints in cases of administrative offences in electronic form. A number of significant problems of legislative regulation and use of modern information technologies of videoconferencing and web conferences in the court session on cases of administrative offenses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are highlighted, and ways to solve them are outlined. The author analyzes regulatory acts, materials of the practice of resolving cases of administrative offences by courts, as well as the corresponding provisions of the Concept of the new Code of administrative offences of the Russian Federation.

Электронное правосудие в цивилистическом процессе в условиях пандемии: сравнительно-правовой анализ

The aim of the work is to identify gaps in the regulatory framework containing the rules and procedures for the actions of persons participating in the civil law process, in the presence of external factors, namely, during a pandemic, in order to improve procedural legislation based on the relevant experience of different countries. When conducting a study of legislation, judicial acts regulating the possibility of administering justice under quarantine conditions, general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, forecasting, as well as specific scientific methods - comparative legal, formal logical, forecasting, were used. The regulatory framework, acts of courts regulating the issues of administering justice in conditions of self-isolation were analyzed. The features of the impact of the pandemic on judicial activities in Russia, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the European Union, as well as in the UK were revealed. Remote means of communication with the court were investigated, as well as consideration of a court case in a civil law process using the means of online interaction. In Russia, the pandemic, along with the use of electronic justice through the systems Moy Arbitr and Pravosudie, became an incentive for the introduction of online meetings in arbitration courts, various types of web conferences. In the Republic of Kazakhstan, quarantine measures became the reason for the greater use of the TrueConf service, the mobile courtroom. The European Union increased the interaction of courts in a distance format with the help of the European eJustice portal. The UK is distinguished by its progressive approach to the legislative settlement of the circumstances associated with remote proceedings. The tasks of electronic justice are set, which must be solved by Russia in an emergency situation. In conclusion, the authors infer that the pandemic had an impact on the introduction of new information technologies in the civil process. The technical component of e-justice is important, but it is impossible to ensure its implementation without fixing the procedural rules in the relevant codified sources. Despite the fact that the legal proceedings in Russia are at a high level and an example in this issue for other countries, it is necessary to refer to the experience of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where a special mobile application TrueConf was developed, which does not require stationary equipment and is more accessible to citizens without contacting specialists. As for the UK, in the authors' opinion, it is worth paying attention to the responsiveness of the legislature regarding the issues that need to be resolved in order to normalize the work of the judicial system in emergency situations during the pandemic.

ウェブ会議システムを利用したオンライン・アイスブレーキング・ゲームのレクリエーション活動としての有用性と実施上の要点

ウェブ会議システムを利用したオンライン・アイスブレーキング・ゲームのレクリエーション活動としての有用性と実施上の要点