Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic made almost all events online. The Human-Centered Design (HCD) research meeting we organize twice a year also had to be held online. However, online events have some problems, such as the lack of serendipity, difficulties in administrating a poster session in the virtual environment, etc. To overcome these difficulties, we tried several challenges to conduct an online academic meeting. One strategy was to hold a video session instead of a poster session. Another one was introducing the online event support system named OLiVES. This paper reports the result of our attempts and discusses the effectiveness of such challenges.
