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Title: Example Good Talk


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Example Good Slides for a CHI Paper
Presentation
Joshua B. Gross, Penn State jgross_at_ist.psu.edu
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Straightforward Overview
  • Purpose/value statement
  • Principles of a good slide presentation
  • Example good slides
  • Conclusion - good slides are a good start to a
    good presentation
  • Acknowledgements

3
Statement of Purpose/Value
  • A good presentation starts with a statement of
    the value of the work
  • Why should people care?
  • Why should they hear your talk?
  • What contribution have you made?
  • This information is probably in your abstract,
    but should be distilled for the slide

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Presenting Background Work
  • Dont try to present all the background
  • Just one or two really crucial elements
  • The CHI audience is broad, so briefly describe
  • Examples follow
  • Participatory Design
  • The theory and practice of involving users at
    some or all stages of design
  • Semiotics
  • A theory of how systems of symbols (like a
    language) communicate ideas

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Citing Prior Work
  • It may be beneficial to cite prior work
  • It should be important and relevant
  • Use this style (Simon, H. A., 1975)
  • Often, this is used to give your audience a
    perspective
  • Participatory design (Nardi, B. A., 1993)
  • is not the same as
  • Participatory design (Bodker, S., 2000)

6
Visual Design
  • The pre-packaged Powerpoint slides are ugly.
  • A plain background is not ugly.
  • If you arent a graphic designer, dont try to be
    -)
  • Simple, Consistent, and Legible.

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Good Chart Example
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Presenting Data
  • Use simple charts/graphs, with (ideally) one main
    point per chart/graph
  • Dont try to jam too much data in your graph
  • Labels x and y axis, and units
  • Use a title that clearly explains the idea you
    are trying to get across

9
Alpha and Beta Teams Perform Better in the
Evening, Delta and Gamma in the Morning
10
Graphs and Charts, Part 2
  • Dont just accept defaults from Excel
  • Colors (including background) may need to be
    changed
  • Axis dimensions and scale can be changed
  • Make sure text is big enough
  • Move legend to where it is most useful
  • Make sure colors background are visible on a
    projection display

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Acronyms
  • Acronyms are dangerous
  • Example ERP
  • Does it mean Enterprise Resources Planner
  • Large-scale corporate planning software
  • Or does it mean Event-Related Potential
  • Reactions measure via electroencephalograph
  • Always spell out acronyms at first use
  • E.g. Event-Related Potential (ERP)
  • One safe exception - HCI!

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Slang and Colloquialisms
  • Avoid slang and colloquialisms if at all possible
  • CHI is an English-language conference
  • 2 billion people speak English
  • Lots of dialect and regionality
  • Make your message clear to people who speak
    English as a second language
  • Or third, or fourth

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Future Work
  • You may want to talk about future work
  • Work you intend to do
  • Work you may have already done
  • Its been up to six months since you submitted
    your paper
  • What direction is the work taking
  • What do you see as the major next hurdle or
    accomplishment

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Summary and Acknowledgements
  • Summarize your major contributions
  • Good slides are the basis of a good talk
  • Assume a broad audience at CHI
  • Make sure your content is readable
  • Stop on your summary slide - this is useful for
    your audience
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • People
  • Include your contact information

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Answering Questions
  • An advanced tip is to have a few slides ready for
    questions you anticipate
  • You wont always have one for each question
    asked, and you may not use them, but they can be
    handy
  • This is a useful place to put additional/supportin
    g data, references, etc.
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