Video: AoIRing Your Thoughts

Published on 10/2/2006 in Academia, Personal, Reviews and Videos. View Comments

At the closing reception of the AoIR conference in Brisbane, I went around asking everyone how they felt about the conference and what they hoped to see in the next one. A pretty straightforward voxpop useful for AoIR organizers as well as curious academics.

As most of the video ended up being so dark, let’s play the “Name That Academic Silhouette” game!





  • Merlyna: Coming from an esteemed academic such as yourself, I'm truly honored *bows*.
  • Fantastic job, Kevin, thanks! Really enjoyed it. We should have hired you to do this from the first AoIR conference.... I hope you'll be doing this again in Vancouver!
  • Thank you Kevin for doing this! I agree it captures the feel of the event very well. And fear not, organizers are listening, though bringing the costs down is an ideal that's a lot harder to realize than one might think.
  • Sal: Ah! You tried to catch me off guard by doing a reversal on me didn't you? Haha... thanks. I enjoyed your interview of me :P

    Karen: You also said the same thing on your flickr picture didn't you? I think AoIR has an automated way of ejecting silly people, so you must be certified "OKAY"! :D
  • Karen
    I think it turned out really well (and I don't look too silly, either!). This was a really good way for conference-goers to provide some feedback. Nicely done!
  • sal
    Hey Kevin, lovely set of interviews that captured the sense of the conference really nicely. (I thought my interview of you was particularly good!!). thanks heaps for doing so much work blogging and videoing the conference. They are such concentrated events, it's really nice to be able to pick over some of the ideas a bit more thoroughly later on using blog postings and video interviews such as yours. Hooray.
  • Yeah, thanks for doing this. It seems like it was another great conference.
  • David: No Problem. It's a great way for me to get to know people :)
  • what a great idea and great set of interviews. thanks, kevin - not just for this video but for all the blogging and flickring of the conference.
  • nuMentally
    Sounds like a good idea... Maybe the AoIR organizers can take some notes from this video.
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