iConfer

This is the homepage of the iConfer conference information viewing app for the iPhone/iPad.

Download

You can download our app for free at the following links:

The Need

Like us, if you have ever been to a large scientific conference before, you may have found it hard to keep track of all the talks and posters you wanted to see. Since this is a common experience for us, and since we also have iPhones, we decided to make an application to make it easier to keep track of conference information, at least for the conferences that we help organize.

How to Use

When the application starts, you will be given a list of conferences for which schedule information is available. This app is currently only used for conferences that we help organize or that we have some sort of close affiliation with, since the data can only be downloaded from our servers. Simply click on the conference you want to view.
When you choose a conference you would like to view, the data is downloaded the first time you view it. This may take several minutes, depending on your connection, so please be patient. This will only happen the first time, unless the conference data is later modified (in which case the new information will be downloaded).
Conference information is displayed across 5 tabs:

Info – top page with conference logo and dates (you can go back to the main menu from here)
Schedule – a list of conference days and conference sessions (use this, in particular, to find information about a specific workshop or symposium)
All Authors – an alphabetical list of all authors, sorted by last name
Bookmarks – a list of talks the user selects by touching the “Add to Bookmarks” button on a talk’s page
All Talks – an alphabetical list of all talks

Application Re-Use

Since our lab organizes or assists in the organization of many scientific conferences, rather than clogging up the app store with one application per conference, we made a generic conference data view app. Our app downloads our data from our servers and displays it on your iPhone.