Paper No: SID-ME Template for a 2-page camera-ready abstract

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John Doe*, S'chn-T' Gaii Spock*, Albert Bernstein**, Michiel Van Dousselaere * ,**
*University of Vienna, Austria, **Märklin, Germany
Abstract In this 2-page template we will demonstrate that it is
possible to have text that serves the purpose of ‘placeholder’
A 50-word abstract announcing the essential scope, methods while at the same time being entertaining and pleasant to read.
and results of this work was written. It explains the relevance
of the work, its originality and the main highlights. Compared
2. Methods
to the average template, ours has the advantage of being 2.1 Content
particularly clear, twice as funny and 3x more pleasant to In order to produce a text that is pleasant to read and is still
read. useful for acting as a placeholder, we have used the following
approach:
1. Introduction  First, we have written this text as if it was the text of an
Recently, the use of templates for the submission of actual scientific paper, i.e. we used exactly the same style
abstracts, extended abstracts or full papers to conferences has of writing, including Latin abbreviations for things such as
become standard procedure. The advantage is that the visual e.g. ‘for example’
appearance of the proceedings of such a conference is more  Secondly, the structure of the text is built up in a manner
uniform, which makes them easier to navigate. It also makes that approximates a normal paper as much as possible. This
the job of the editor of these proceedings easier. means that first an introduction is given, subsequently the
Such a template, which is typically provided by the methods are described and , the results are given, followed
conference organizer, usually contains some bogus text that is by a discussion and some conclusions
used as a placeholder for the actual manuscript to be submitted  Typographical features such as bulleted text and
by the authors that will use the template. While being very emphasized text in italics are used when appropriate
useful, this placeholder text is not very pleasant and sometimes  The text we have produced is self-referring and sometimes
even boring to read. Sometimes it contains a repetition of the even self-recursive, i.e. it presents to the reader information
following nonsensical, seemingly Latin text [1]: about the text or even sometimes the sentence he is
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, reading. We believe that this is one of the major
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna instruments to make the text more funny. Self-recursive
aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation sentences often cause smiles because they are surprising
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis and intriguing in a funny manner. Some examples will be
aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum presented in the section about the results.
dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat This approach yields a text that is equivalent to a normal
cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit article as far as typesetting and layout is concerned, while at
anim id est laborum.” the same time being perfectly readable.

Fig. 1 Visible spectrum of a very special lamp. This figure and its caption are ‘grouped’ in
order to keep them together, If grouping is not possible you can put your figure and caption
together in a text box. In both cases set the text wrapping of the resulting combination to ‘Top
and bottom”. Figures can span 1 or 2 columns as needed.

Sometimes, some other text is repeated over and over 2.2 Length
again, with the same boring result. One of the difficulties in any paper is the control of the
length of the text. Usually very strict rules are implied. For
example, in this template we are forced to stay within 2 pages.
 One method to do this is to tune the level of detail to which increased ‘expectance level’, i.e. the induced expectance that
the topics are described. For example, in the description of the something interesting is still to come and it is worth the trouble
content above, we had the option of being very detailed about going through the remainder of the text in order to discover
the typographical features that are used in this template, but we what that might be.
chose to limit ourselves to two examples, because that is
enough to make the point while it limits the number of spent 3.2 General appreciation
characters. The detailed processing of the test results will be presented
Another method that we can use to adjust the length of the during the conference, but we can already disclose that the new
abstract is to scale the pictures. Many pictures are very tolerant template has proven to be 2.1 times funnier and 2.9 times more
to sizing and it is easy to accommodate for 100 words extra by pleasant to read than a regular conference template.
reducing the size of just one picture. Conversely it is possible
to approach the 2-page limit more closely by stretching some
4. Discussion
of the pictures just a little. 4.1 Merit
See for example Error: Reference source not found for an As mentioned above, the readability of standard conference
example of a figure that can be stretched or reduced 10% in proceeding & abstract templates is relatively poor. Often bogus
size without affecting readability of the manuscript. However, text (sometimes in pseudo Latin) is used as a placeholder for
note that the text on the axes is too small, which means it is typographical purposes only. We have managed to create a
unacceptable for publication. template that serves the same purpose but at the same time is
pleasant and interesting to read. Because the new template is
3. Results more entertaining, it has added value compared to the
3.1 Reading behavior conventional templates.
The present template was shown to a test panel of 500 4.2 Impact and further research
people from different areas in science and their reading The expected impact of the new template is twofold. First
behavior was monitored. A standard template was used as a of all, it is expected to take away some of the stress inherent to
reference. In 250 cases the standard template was presented to the writing of an article; secondly it is expected act as an
the readers prior to the new template; in the remaining 250 incentive for people hesitating to write down their results.
cases the order was reversed. These second-order results merit further investigation which
Regardless of the order in which the templates were we will report in future publications.
presented, the new template yielded mild to pronounced
symptoms of amusement, while the conventional template 5. Conclusion
yielded no noticeable emotions. While reading the self- A new template for conference proceedings was created.
recursive sentences ‘This sentence contains ten words, eighteen Instead of using bogus text or pseudo-Latin phrases, the text is
syllables and sixty-four letters.’ [2] and ‘In this sentence, the readable, entertaining and sometimes even funny due to its
word "and" occurs twice, the word "eight" occurs twice, the self-recursive nature. We expect that his template will have a
word "four" occurs twice, the word "fourteen" occurs four positive impact on the number of authors submitting their work
times, the word "in" occurs twice, the word "seven" occurs for publication
twice, the word "the" occurs fourteen times, the word "this"
occurs twice, the word "times" occurs seven times, the word References
"twice" occurs eight times, and the word "word" occurs [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
fourteen times.’[3] a raised attention level was noticed in 92% [2] Hofstadter, D. R. "On Self-Referential Sentences," "On
of the test persons. In 85 % of the test persons this coincided
Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up," and "On Viral
with a clear smile on their face.
Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures." Chs. 1-3 in
3.2 Perseverance Metamagical Themas: Questing of Mind and Pattern. New
In addition to the amusement and attention level also an York: BasicBooks, pp. 1-69, 1985.
increased perseverance to read the remainder of the text was
[3] Howard W. Bergerson, “Palindromes and Anagrams”, Jun
observed. We believe that this is due to the generation of an
1, 1973.

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