Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(1), 58-69 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1323456

Akademické konference v časech pandemie COVID-19 – osobní ohlédnutí za XP 2020

Michal Doležel ORCID...
Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague, W. Churchill Sq. 1938/4, 130 67 Prague, Czech Republic

Tento komentář reaguje na situaci, jež nastala v souvislosti s celosvětovou pandemií COVID-19 v oblasti organizace akademických konferencí. Reflektuje mou osobní zkušenost získanou během účasti na 21. mezinárodní konferenci o agilním vývoji softwaru (XP 2020), která v roce 2020 proběhla poprvé plně virtuální formou. V komentáři nejprve předkládám souhrn technických a dalších výzev, se kterými jsem se potýkal v souvislosti s přípravou na roli přednášející a účastníka této konference. Následně se krátce zamýšlím nad možnými zásadními dopady pandemie COVID-19 na publikační zvyklosti informatiky a počítačových disciplín v nadcházejícím období.

Keywords: Virtuální konference, On-line událost, Únava ze Zoomu, Informatika, Softwarové inženýrství, Publikační kultura

Academic Conferences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Personal Look Back at XP 2020

This note deals with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on the ways how academic conferences are organized and run. Specifically, I reflect on my personal experience gathered during the attendance of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was organized as a solely virtual event for the first time. First and foremost, I summarize the technical and other challenges encountered as a conference presenter and participant. Then, I shortly discuss a possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future publication standards in the sciences of computing.

Keywords: Virtual Conference, On-line Event, Zoom Fatigue, Computing, Software Engineering, Publication Culture

Received: July 20, 2020; Accepted: July 22, 2020; Prepublished online: July 23, 2020; Published: July 29, 2020  Show citation

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Doležel, M. (2020). Academic Conferences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Personal Look Back at XP 2020. Acta Informatica Pragensia, 9(1), 58-69. doi: 10.18267/j.aip.132
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