[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi Johannes,

Thanks for your insights in one of the most important aspects of any meeting! In general, for groups of say, up to 10 people, is it necessary to reserve a table for dinner if one is not too picky about the venue?

Many thanks,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

As a bit of a Döner löver I am looking forward to sampling one or more kebabs (going easy on the garlic of course). This link suggests a few places to go http://berlinfoodstories.com/2015/03/31/best-berlin-doner-kebabs/, but I have no idea of the quality of this review. Anyone with personal experience?

Best wishes,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi all,

Thanks for your time and input earlier today! Please find attached minutes of our meeting.

Best wishes,

Pepijn

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[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi Viktor,

Interesting question! Instead of an answer, I’d like to give you my musings. I am sure you are well aware of the various validation studies out there that have compared consumer activity trackers to established means of sleep monitoring (actigraphy and polysomnography). From what I have seen, generally the conclusion is that there is reasonable correlation between validated devices and consumer activity trackers, but that there tends to be under or overestimation of various sleep parameters/times resulting in conclusions that consumer devices ‘may’ be of use. Smart phone apps (see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26446248) are likely inferior when taken into consideration in these comparisons.

However, consumer activity trackers also provide certain benefits. As you also mention, data collection can be an issue with more traditional devices and I am sure that often the size of a study will be dictated by the number of devices available. For this reason, perhaps consumer devices are an interesting alternative. They are cheaper, many people already have one, in some cases allow data to be pulled down from the cloud with very little extra (development) effort, and making a (web or mobile) user interface for your users is often reasonably straightforward.

We tend to compare new technologies with the gold standard in the area of interest, and I think that in most cases the consumer devices will then be inferior to some extent. However, perhaps we don’t always need the gold standard (as you also suggest Viktor) and silver may be sufficient. So perhaps we should turn things around and look at what type of accuracy is required to reach a certain goal and whether this allows us to look at cheaper alternatives to validated actigraphy?

All the best,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi all,

Thanks for time and great input earlier today! Please find attached the minutes of today’s meeting with the following action points:

AW:
• None
AM:
• Have a quick look to see if it is possible to filter the events listing on location.
• Make the events plug in live.
• Have a quick look at the possibility to filter the events listing on location
• Add an item to the slideshow to publicise the events page.
JFA:
• Update videos and send around
• Provide links to papers mentioned in video
PV:
• Propose use of SliDo app to ISRII board / ISRII LOC
• Add timezone box to time box in events page if possible
• Add URL attribute of event to iCal object
• Look for picture for events page slide show element
• Make page for video with Cristina
• Suggest opening of ISRII facebook account with paid maintenance.

All the best,

Pepijn

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[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Dear all,

Please find attached the minutes from the last meeting. The action points are:

AW:
• Write outline of video booth activity during ISRII 2017 (goals, resources needed)
• Provide name of app used for posing questions electronically
AM:
• Moderate events submitted (repeated from last minutes)
JFA:
• Forward video transcript.
• Provide supporting info for video with Cristina (see minutes).
PV:
• Send reminder to Gerhard Andersson (repeated from last minutes)
• Finalise president’s address with Frances. (repeated from last minutes)
• Investigate issue of access to events under his account
• Propose capture of keynote presentations to ISRII LOC
• Do first iteration on transcripts and post results in sub committee forum
All:
• Test events page at https://isrii.org/events-2/and https://isrii.org/submit-event/ (repeated from last minute)

Best wishes,

Pep

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[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi Amy, all,

Apologies for the omission. Angela, this explains your confusion also.

Best wishes,

Pepijn

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[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi Frances, looking forward to Berlin and certainly looking forward to hearing the locals’ recommendations! This place: http://www.maxbratwurst.com/ seems to fulfill your every wish (though you’ll have to settle for fussball instead of rugby / Aussie rules..). What would the locals recommend?

All the best,

Pep

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi all,

Minutes of our last meeting attached.

Best wishes,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Once logged in you should go directly to the post, but I can ask if redirects can be done (if user redirected to login form)

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi all,

Thanks again for your effort and time to date! Please find attached updates to the website functionality document.

Best wishes,

Pep

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[Pepijn Van De Ven]

In relation to the email digest of forum activity, I have emailed a developer to see if we can implement required changes. This is in response to Mark’s request for more extensive functionality (from memory: post content / title in the digest with link to post) and an issue identified recently, namely that non-board members see in their digest that there was activity in the board forum (though they still cannot access the post).

Could you please all let me know two things:

1) Whether you think it’s worth us spending some money on this. The ‘some’ will be quantified once we have clear requirements for the developer and of course I will request your permission at that stage.
2) What changes you would like to see in the digest and in the way it is delivered, options to personalise etc. Please think about this carefully as we will only get one chance!

Thanks,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Hi Amy,

Great progress! A couple of questions / suggestions (though I am well aware of the limitations of WordPress plug-ins :-)..):

– Can we move to a more prominent place, for example by making space besides the slideshow?
– Is it possible to add a link to one of our own pages where we could have the same feed with more extensive info (authors and abstract)? That same page could potentially also be used for the editor’s pick.

Many thanks,

Pep

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

Thanks Sally,

The forum is now open to all members and is accessible through the ‘Members Area’ menu item. I have checked and the ISRII board forum is not visible to non-board members.

Best,

Pepijn

[Pepijn Van De Ven]

PV – done. membership committee forum = ISRII Board forum which should be accessible to committee members only

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