...and now down with a cold. Cannot recommend large campus conferences - you can get really wet, when it takes you 15-20 min. to walk from the residence hall to the presentation site and you have no umbrella. Cold and damp and freezing my way through the first track-session; personal experience tells me that added to a stressed schedule, this is all it takes to bring me down. On top of this, it is _really_ annoying when you then have to walk another 5-10 minutes from the presentation room to the place where the hot tea is. - Believe me, social networking will not happen when you have 200+ researchers constantly running around campus like disturbed ants in an anthill.

Don't have the energy to write much about the conference, which were on average fine, with many OK papers, only a few bad ones, and one session which was amazing: a group of Japanese and Korean doing a really interesting panel-session on the social psychology of Lineage II gamers - impressively well-coordinated and with people and papers really talking to each others. The only time it really happened in the sessions, I were in.

There are some photo impressions & brief comments in my photoblog.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:00