Healthcare privacy and workplace privacy

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Healthcare privacy and workplace privacy

• Week 12 - November 16, 18

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Administrivia

• Check out example posters!
• Homework 13 (last homework!) will be reading and
  summary/highlight only
• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/hw13.html
• Draft papers due November 18
• Mike Shamos will give guest lecture on Thursday

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Organizing a research paper
Research and Communication Skills

• Decide up front what the point of your paper is
  and stay focused as you write
• Once you have decided on the main point, pick a
  title
• Start with an outline
• Use multiple levels of headings (usually 2 or 3)
• Dont ramble!

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Typical paper organization
Research and Communication Skills

• Abstract
• Short summary of paper
• Introduction
• Motivation (why this work is interesting/important
  , not your personal motivation)
• Background and related work
• Sometimes part of introduction, sometimes two
  sections
• Methods
• What you did
• In a systems paper you may have system design and
  evaluation sections instead
• Results
• What you found out
• Discussion
• Sometimes called Conclusion
• May include conclusions, future work, discussion
  of implications,etc.
• References
• Appendix
• Stuff not essential to understanding the paper,
  but useful, especially to those trying to
  reproduce your results - data tables, proofs,
  survey forms, etc.

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Road map
Research and Communication Skills

• Papers longer than a few pages should have a
  road map so readers know where you are going
• Road map usually comes at the end of the
  introduction
• Tell them what you are going to say, then say it,
  (and then tell them what you said)
• Examples
• In the next section I introduce X and discuss
  related work. In Section 3 I describe my research
  methodology. In Section 4 I present results. In
  Section 5 I present conclusions and possible
  directions for future work.
• Waldman et al, 2001 This article presents an
  architecture for robust Web publishing systems.
  We describe nine design goals for such systems,
  review several existing systems, and take an
  in-depth look at Publius, a system that meets
  these design goals.

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Use topic sentences
Research and Communication Skills

• (Almost) every paragraph should have a topic
  sentence
• Usually the first sentence
• Sometimes the last sentence
• Topic sentence gives the main point of the
  paragraph
• First paragraph of each section and subsection
  should give the main point of that section
• Examples from Waldman et al, 2001
• In this section we attempt to abstract the
  particular implementation details and describe
  the underlying components and architecture of a
  censorship-resistant system.
• Anonymous publications have been used to help
  bring about change throughout history.

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Avoid unsubstantiated claims
Research and Communication Skills

• Provide evidence for every claim you make
• Related work
• Results of your own experiments
• Conclusions should not come as a surprise
• Analysis of related work, experimental results,
  etc. should support your conclusions
• Conclusions should summarize, highlight, show
  relationships, raise questions for future work
• Dont introduce new ideas in discussion or
  conclusion section (other than ideas for related
  work)
• Dont reach conclusions not supported by the rest
  of your paper

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Plan your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Make an outline of what you want to talk about
• No need to present every detail of your paper
• Your presentation should motivate people who find
  it interesting to read your paper
• Consider the background of your audience
• If they are experts, focus on the details of your
  research and results
• If they are not experts, spend time on background
  and motivating the problem
• Consider how much time you have (10 minutes
  MAXIMUM 5 minutes for questions)

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Structure your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Outline
• Optional for short talks
• Background and motivation
• Sometimes you may want to lead with this
• Research methodology
• Or system design evaluation
• Results
• You may not have them if this is a work in
  progress
• Related work
• Could also go after background or at end,
  optional for short talks
• Contributions
• Useful in job talk, probably no time in 10-minute
  talk
• Future work
• Optional for short talks

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Making slides
Research and Communication Skills

• Use easy-to-read fonts
• Avoid text lt 20 pt font
• Use a simple slide design, no distracting
  background images
• Use a color scheme with high contrast
• Avoid animation unless it helps illustrate your
  point
• Clipart can help make your points more clear
  and/or memorable, but dont let it distract
• Make figures and tables readable
• Dont make too many slides (1-3 minutes/slide)

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Slide content
Research and Communication Skills

• Are slides lecture notes/handouts?
• For a class or tutorial, slides may double as
  lecture notes ? more content on slides
• For a research presentation, your paper is
  usually the handout ? less content on slides
• Dont try to put everything on the slide
• Dont include text unless you want people to read
  it
• If people are reading your slides they are not
  listening to you
• Keep text short
• Dont put too much math on a slide
• Just include key points, examples, etc.
• A figure may be worth 1000 words

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If you use overhead projector
Research and Communication Skills

• White background usually best
• Dont use a paper to cover up part of your slide
  and uncover as you go
• If you have to skip slides, dont put them up and
  take them down real fast, just skip them

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Prepare
Research and Communication Skills

• Make your slides in advance
• Practice
• Time yourself
• Get feedback from others
• Watch yourself on video
• Make sure you know how to hook your laptop up to
  the projector, change screen resolution, advance
  your slides, etc. (Mac users, bring your
  adaptor!)
• If you need to point to parts of your slides,
  decide if you will use, mouse, stick, laser
  pointer, etc. and bring it with you

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Giving your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Dress neatly
• Stand up straight, hands out of pockets
• Dont hide behind the podium
• Move around, but not too much
• Keep track of time
• Put your watch on podium, note clock in room,
  watch moderator with time cards, etc.
• Face the audience, look at your audience, not
  just one person
• Project your voice
• Dont talk too fast
• Finish on time (or early!)

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Keeping your audience engaged
Research and Communication Skills

• Convey enthusiasm
• Inject humor
• Tell a story
• Ask the audience questions
• Modulate your voice
• Speak slowly
• Try to prevent your audience from getting lost
• Provide ample background
• Define important terms up front
• Dont get into highly technical details unless
  thats what your audience expects

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Handling questions
Research and Communication Skills

• If you have a strict time limit, leave time for
  questions or avoid taking them
• Answer clarification questions quickly
• Suggest that questions that will require lengthy
  answers be taken off line
• Dont get flustered by critics or questions you
  dont know the answer to
• Stay calm, diffuse the question, keep going

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Presentation for this class

• December 7, 9, 13
• 8-10 minute presentation plus 5 minutes for
  questions
• Speakers should setup during question time for
  previous speaker if laptop switch is involved
• You must use visual aids (probably slides)
• Email slides to me before class if you want to
  use my laptop (preferable)
• Practice and make sure you do not go over 10
  minutes
• Sign up!

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Homework 11 Discussion

• http//lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/hw11.html
• Cases where US government used personal data to
  violate civil liberties of US citizens
• Brin Can we stand living our lives exposed to
  scrutiny ... if in return we get flashlights of
  our own?

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Guest speaker

• Michael Shamos