Electronic Presentation Guide

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Electronic Presentation Guide

• 2002 VLSI Test Symposium

4/2/2002 v2.0
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Outline

• VTS presentations are unlike other conference
  presentations
• Presentation Guidelines
• Specs for electronic slides
• Schedule
• Good and bad examples

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VTS Presentations

• Presentations are limited to 15 mins
• Focus on pertinent information
• DO NOT attempt to fit entire paper onto slides
• List only the key innovations and novel
  approaches on slides
• Audience comprises of technical experts
• Details of proofs and theories are redundant

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Standards and Guidelines

• Standard mandatory requirements for VTS
  presentations
• Presentations will be dropped for failure to
  follow
• Guideline suggested good practices
• Result in good visuals
• Its your choice Deviate at your own risk
• Guidelines in ordinary yellow text

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Projection Computer

• Pentium PC, 100Mhz or faster
• 32 Mbytes CPU memory
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• PowerPoint 2000
• VTS supplies projection computer
• VTS preloads all presentations
• No changes at the conference

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Style Guidelines

• 15 slides, including title slide
• 9 lines max on a text slide
• 7 words max per line
• High contrast Light lettering/lines on a dark
  background
• Company (university) logo on title slide only
• Show only what you will talk about

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Style Guidelines (cont)

• Short phrases, not long sentences
• Use Arial, or similar sans serif font
• This line uses the Helvetica font
• The rest of the document uses Arial
• 36 Point Titles
• 28 point text
• Use graphs instead of tables

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Contrast

• High contrast very important
• Has to be visible from back of large room
• Use light lines/text on a dark background
• Foreground White, yellow, light cyan
• Background Black, dark blue, brown, dark green
• Caution Red, orange or blue lettering and lines
  become unreadable when projected

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Display Speed

• Slides should display instantly
• Do not distract the audience with slow transition
  effects
• Avoid overuse of slow graphics, fonts and special
  effects

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About your presentation

• Presentation timing
• 15 minutes for actual presentation
• 3 minutes for Q A
• 2 minutes to switch presentations
• Hard deadline of April 6 to submit
• Provides time to get presentation into database

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Schedule

• April 6 Final presentation submission deadline
• Provides time to get presentation into database

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A Bad Example

• This slide has no title. Titles help guide the
  audience through the talk. All slides except
  photographs should have a title.
• The type on this slide is too small. Its
  readable here, but when projected, only the
  presenter and maybe those in the front rows will
  be able to read it. Those in the back will be
  completely lost.
• USE OF ALL CAPITAL LETTERS OR ITALICS also makes
  slides difficult to read. Use dark backgrounds
  not light!
• This slide would be easier to follow if
  indentations were used.
• Dont design your VTS slides to be stand alone.
  They are a guide to your presentation. If they
  were understandable by themselves, we could just
  publish them and forget about presentations!
  Your slides support what you say They dont
  replace it.
• This slide has too many words and too many
  points. Keep your slides under nine lines.

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Thank You and Good Luck!