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Venue

KUMAMOTO-JO HALL

3-40, Sakuramachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-city, Kumamoto, 860-0805

Access (KUMAMOTO-JO HALL)
 
1F Exhibition Hall : poster presentations, business exhibition, break area

2F : Room 1, reception, cloakroom

3F : Room 2-10

Please refer to the Venue Guide (to be distributed at the venue/PDF) for a floor map of the venue.

Meeting style

The Convention will be conducted using a hybrid style (in person and online).

Programs

How to participate in the Convention in person

＜Registration＞

1. Please register and pay the registration fee in advance and come to the venue on the day of the symposium.
2. Registration is not available at the registration desk. Before coming to the venue, please register and pay the registration fee online. Registration can be completed even during the exhibition.

＜Participation＞

1. Please log in to your Confit account and print out the registration badge (it will be available for printing starting late August). If you have forgotten the printed badge on the day of Convention, please inquire at the reception desk.
2. Please put your participation badge in the designated badge holder and wear it in such a way that it is visible to other participants and staff members at the venue.

*The two-dimensional code for the “Anti-Harassment Manifesto” is on the registration badge. After reading the Declaration, please check the checkbox.

＜Procedures to be followed when you visit the venue＞

1. If you have brought your own badge, you will be given a badge holder at the venue.
2. If you have not brought your own badge, please visit the Reception Desk located at KUMAMOTO-JO HALL 2F to receive a participation badge.
3. If you are an invited guest, please visit the Reception Desk located at KUMAMOTO-JO HALL 2F to receive a participation badge.

＜Accompanying Participation＞

1. Those who fall under any of the following categories may participate in the event as an accompanying person by submitting an application in advance. No participation fee will be charged:
   • Family members of participants who are junior high school students or younger
   • Those who are assisting participants who need assistance due to disability, injury, illness, pregnancy, etc.
   • Others who have applied to and been approved to accompany the participants by the Convention’s Organizing Committee
2. If you wish to apply to be an accompanying person, please register in advance using the form below. 
   [https://forms.gle/ptpjHCzoJ7MAAQCBA]
3. Accompanying persons are requested to come to the reception desk (KUMAMOTO-JO HALL 2F) on the day of the Convention. You will receive a participation badge.
4. The accompanying person may enter the venue where the main attendee participates or makes a presentation. They will not be allowed to participate in the Q&A or discussions.

＜About the venue＞

1. Please consider the rights of others such as portrait rights and copyrights of presented materials when photographing at the event halls. In particular, recording audio, video, and taking photographs during a presentation is expressly prohibited without prior consent from the presenter. Please be mindful and do not infringe the portrait rights of others when taking commemorative photographs of your own presentation. However, please understand that the Organizing Committee and the Secretariat of the event will be filming and taking photographs in the event halls.
2. For your lunch, please use nearby convenience stores, restaurants. If you wish to eat in the venue, please use the lounge or break area.
3. No paging service will be provided within the venue.
4. Wireless LAN will be available at the venue. Access information will be provided at the venue. *Wireless LAN connections are prone to instability due to the large number of users and is not suitable for online meeting connections such as Zoom. Bringing your own router is recommended.
5. Smoking is not permitted in the venue.
6. The sale or advertisement of goods, etc., for the sole purpose of business without permission is prohibited.
7. Some lectures will be recorded. The recorded video of the lectures may be made public as an archive at a later date at the discretion of the organizer. Please be aware of this in advance.

＜Childcare facility＞

Nursery care will be provided free of charge for participants during the Convention period by reservation only. Applications will be accepted from noon on Monday, August 5, until 17:00 on Friday, August 27, 2024. For more details, please refer to Information on childcare facility.

＜Member exchange meeting＞

A member exchange meeting will be held at the Exhibition Hall on the 1st floor of the KUMAMOTO-JO HALL from 18:00 to 20:00 on September 7 (Saturday), the second day of the Convention. For details, please refer to the Members Exchange Meeting.

How to participate online

Online participants can view and watch programs on the Program page after logging into the Online Program.
Abstracts of presentations, PDF files of papers and digital posters for poster presentations will be available on Monday, August 26.
Videos of on-demand presentations will be available on Friday, September 6.

＜Login＞

To log in to the conference website, use your Confit account login information.
You will be able to log in after the registration fee has been paid.

＜Viewing＞

【On-demand streaming】
PDF files of research papers presented in Poster Presentations (available from the “Download PDF” button), digital posters, and videos of lectures and symposia are available for viewing any time during the Convention and for an extended viewing period after the Convention. Videos will be added as they are available.

＜Question and Answer Session＞

1.  On-demand presentations will have a questions and answers (Q&A) section with the presenter available through the comment box on the page of each presentation.
2.  The Q&A session will be open during the Convention (from Friday, September 6 to Sunday, September 8). After the Convention period ends, the comment box will continue to be available during the extended online content streaming period (until Thursday, October 31). Please note that you may not receive a reply from the presenter.

General information about the Convention (both for in-person and online participation)

＜Updates about the Convention＞

Information will be provided to participants through the following media.

• 88th Annual Convention website (the current page)  https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jpa2024
• The 88th Annual Convention Official X  https://x.com/88_JPA2024
• Email sent to all participants

＜Reasonable Accommodations＞

The convention aims to ensure that all participants respect the personality and individuality of others, and that the availability of information is guaranteed without being limited by, for example, a particular disability.

As part of our efforts, when subtitles are available for on-demand videos, we will note this in the program.

Even for videos without subtitles, we ask each presenter/speaker to consider the use of more textual information in screen-sharing materials and to be aware of color schemes, etc.

＜Handouts＞

1. This Annual Convention does not print a booklet format of the program. For more information about the program, please refer to the Annual Convention’s webpage.
2. Floor plans will be distributed at the venue(KUMAMOTO-JO HALL). The floor plan includes the maps for the Exhibition, event halls, and schedules of real-time events.
3. The Proceedings of the Annual Convention will be published after the Convention. The date and the price of the publication will be sent out to participants and JPA members once these become available.

＜Receipts for Participation Fee, Participation Badge (Certificate of Participation), and Certificate of Presentation＞

1. Receipts for the participation fee can be downloaded from your Confit account.
2. The participation badge can be downloaded from your Confit account from late August.
   The participation certificate can also be downloaded together with the participation badge.
3. If you wish to receive a certificate of presentation, please contact the JPA Office at jpa@psych.or.jp with the following information:
   • Full name
   • Type of presentation
   • Presentation No. and title