This year the attendance to the ISMRM annual meeting, at least from the northern Asia-Pacific region, is expected to be low. Many from the US as far as I can tell are not travelling to Cape Town, South Africa. I have two posters to present, but they will instead be covered by two of my colleagues who do travel. The way digital posters are uploaded has been changed (again!), and has received criticism. The word limitation of 750 is unreasonable, and many will simply upload ppt slides as figures, to defeat the limits. In order to make contents visible in small-screen phones, posters are now forced to be partitioned into small pieces, and while they are thus made more fluid and amorphous, it is being done in a rigid and restrictive way. At one point more attention should be paid and efforts be devoted to the picture, not the frame.
[Note added during the Conference week] As feared, many digital posters were very hard to read because many authors just uploaded their ppt slides in small figure spaces, or they did not know what to do with the word limit so the poster contents were badly fragmented and all bullet-ized. Something has to be done here.
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