App Profile: SAEM Annual Meeting

brad_ito

Rating: 4/5

Has become more useful over the years. Works well overall to navigate the conference. On my iPad mini 6 there are lots of crashes. Just hitting the global search crashes before you enter a term. Each crash takes you back to login and download event and edit profile making it kind of unusable on that device.

SAEM conference app

Rating: 1/5

The functionality that it strives to achieve is good but it is executed poorly. Interacting with the app (on 2 different iPhones - an 11 and a 12) has proven it is clunky, frequently poorly responsive to touches, takes a great deal of time to load initial data, doesn’t save your favorites/schedule to a profile that can be loaded onto another phone (ie when I sign in to both, the second phone doesn’t have my schedule automatically saved when using the first phone), and when signing in there is no indication of success or fail - if it failed it simply re loads a generic page and continues to ask you to sign in rather than clearly stating it didn’t work and please try again. Also the failed login was from using the alternate email that I have (which I have since listed as my primary, but it wasn’t working so I used my old email and then it was successful in signing in). For a large national conference in emergency medicine, this app is terrible and needs to be polished.

Matthew's Impressions

Rating: 2/5

Not very easy to navigate. One HUGE reason is listing abstract sessions AND the individual abstracts made the lists cumbersome and difficult to keep track of. Hard to edit your schedule. If you removed a session, instead of simply removing it from the list, or waiting to refresh, it moved you to the start of your schedule. Also very cumbersome to navigate. A lot of sessions were missing key information, specifically agendas for society meetings. Simple things like finding the internet password could have been more prominent. The ad that popped up each time you opened the ad was beyond irritating when you were a few minutes before a session and trying to find the room.