New answers tagged presentation
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In addition to strategies for anticipating questions, I thought it would be helpful to suggest how to cope with the nerves. I find that it sometimes helps to remind yourself a couple of things:
Remember that you have been working and thinking about your specific question probably more than most people hearing the talk - they are just hearing about your ...
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One strategy to adopt when answering questions is to first repeat back the essence of the question to the questioner:
If I understand correctly, you are asking ....
This will have two effects. Firstly, it ensures that you are actually answering the correct question. Secondly, it will buy you a little bit of time to gather your thoughts and think a bit ...
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There are a few obvious questions to ask yourself in planning for questions:
What are the inherent weaknesses in the current work? (Almost no research is completely "airtight," so figuring out where the weak spots are will make a difference.)
What are the ramifications of whatever assumptions I have made? Are they logical? What happens if I strengthen, ...
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Whether light foreground on dark background or vice versa is easier to see depends on the light conditions of the presentation room.
Projectors are still not very powerful: the white of a projector will usually not stand out even against a comparably dim room illumination.
If it is really dark, bright foreground on dark background allows to show more ...
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Most private companies have their specific color schemes and logos that must be shown on every slide. That's just the way it goes in industry. So it's just a matter of hitting the right conference :). I am pretty sure that at communication science conventions, you won't see any single white background presentation (or black background, for that matter).
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In HCI/information science many conference presentations, especially in the best conferences like CHI or CSCW, tend to have nice colored backgrounds. I would even argue that in certain sub-fields of HCI or information science, just having a vanilla black or white colored background tends to be the exception rather than the norm.
This is a brilliant ...
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Conferences tend to take place indoors in dimly-lit rooms. Dimly-lit rooms are a good place to fall asleep. Using a white background helps avoid this. Also, dark text/lines on a white background are easier to read (I've seen more than one study showing this).
If you are going to be showing a lot of astronomy or fluorescence biology images, where the ...
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There are two key elements in a report: content and structure. These can boost each other. A better content will make a judge (referee, reviewer, etc.) feel that the person has something to say, and thus the judge can overlook small mistakes in structure, and only ask for corrections. On the other hand, when a moderate content is prepared really good, the ...
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As a policy, it is a far better idea to always add a relevant citation, in small font, below every figure, formula, quotation, etc, that is not yours and which you are building upon. I do this even in lectures, which students always get after.
The cost of adding a citation in small font is really small, but by not doing it you risk exposing yourself to ...
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Applied mathematician here; my solution is putting them on the same slide as the material. I use formats such as [Someone '99], [Lin WW, '00] (initials are almost mandatory for some common surnames), [Doe et al, book '04], [P and SomeoneElse, preprint '12] (my name is always abbreviated to an initial, which is a common convention). I find it a good ...
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Not including citations would be a very bad idea, asides from the reasons given above, there is a risk that someone would claim that you are plagiarising their work - even though you aren't. I have seen this happen before.
Perhaps place an in-slide (akin to in-text) reference on each slide and a slide at the end with the references, or if possible, make a ...
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If the slides you're using are going to have "independent life,"—in other words, if you're going to make them available separately from the conference paper (on your website, for instance), then the citations should be included as part of the presentation. I would follow posdef's example and place the citations on the same slide as where it's needed; this ...
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I don't know if there is a specific way within the CS community but the way most established seniors seem to do in my field is to note down the reference at the bottom of the slide where they refer to someone's results/figures.
I think this is a better approach than to list them all in the end, because the audience gets the reference together with the ...
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