Re: [Tccc] presentations by non-authors

While I agree with the basic idea, as you say, this is a judgment
call per case, under rare circumstances.

We had very few (<=3) non-author presentations at WoWMoM this year;
some people simply had travel bans from their institutions due to
swine flu. (Now, it is an interesting question how to count travel
bans due to budget; I'd say this is simply different.)

So, while I basically agree with you that an author should come and
make all effort to present, a gray-ish area will remain.

Btw, the conference venue may also have an impact on how many people
make the effort or are allowed to go. "May I go to Hawaii, I got
this paper there..." may cause some raised eyebrows.

It would be interesting to sample this over different conferences
and venues to understand the origins of the problem.

That said, I have seen repeated inquiries this year, asking me what
happens if a person gets a paper accepted and cannot present. So,
we probably need to take some action.

Joerg

Gaurav Somani wrote:
> Very true. A restriction on at least one author registration should be
> modified to at least one author attendee. In any case there is a problem
> regarding their presence than the presentation should be directly uploaded
> instead of presenting by anyone. A conference has a main motive of
> discussing the issues and getting feedback on your work.
>
> Gaurav Somani
> LNMIIT, Jaipur
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the past, we had problems that accepted papers didn't get presented,
>> when authors would not show up at the conference. This has since been fixed,
>> usually by requiring a presentation before accepted papers are published in
>> the digital library.
>>
>> My impression at GLOBECOM this year is that roughly 1/3 of the papers are
>> presented by someone other than the authors. This usually means that it is
>> impossible to ask any substantial questions. Several authors actually
>> directly end with a slide that says "send questions to the authors by
>> email."
>>
>> One of the main attractions of attending a conference IMO is being able to
>> interact with the authors, both in the session and during the breaks. When
>> authors aren't here, that's not possible and the value of the conference is
>> greatly diminished. I might as well watch a YouTube video of the talk.
>>
>> (I do understand that sometimes visa issues, etc. can prevent an author
>> from attending a conference on short notice. But I don't believe this
>> explains the large number of cases I see here.)
>>
>> An easy fix would be to require presentation of a paper *by an author*
>> before it's published. I'm wondering what others think of this idea?
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>
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