HOMEWORK 4
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Steps
•Step 1
–IEEE 802.11 frame exchanges
•Step 2
–Analysis of SensorScope or Failure Trace
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Presentation techniques
Marcelo Dias de Amorim
CNRS/LIP6 and UPMC Paris Universitas
Why this class?
•Presentation is the 3rd step of your work
•What are the first two?
–1: The work itself
–2: Convincing the reviewers
•Possible “publicity” of your work
–Get feedback before submission
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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
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Types of presentations
•Support type
–Oral presentation
–Poster presentation
•Presence type
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Adapt your speech
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Adapt your speech
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Who is interested in your work?
•At best, a few people in the audience
•Who has the necessary background?
–You…
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Give a good impression
•You should master your subject
–Although it is not always possible…
•If you don’t, people will notice
•Prepare your material before
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Eye contact
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But…
•The previous guy is a specialist
•What about us?
•At least
–Avoid staring at the slides
–Try to move a bit (when possible)
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Your audience has limited capacity
•Concentration decreases with time
–1 hour 1∼2 ideas
–2 hours 0.5 idea
•Further information after the talk
–People really interested show up
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Nice example
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Talks != Papers
•In the talk, only the most important points
–Details are in the paper
•Forget equations whenever possible
•Look at the following two slides
–Personal experience
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Catch the attention
•Catch the attention of your public
•Figures help a lot
–Of course, if well done…
•The first minute is crucial
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Check and recheck!
•Verify typos end other mistakes
•Mistekes are vary, vary bed for your work
–In both papers and slides
•Suggestion
–Be careful from the beginning
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Control your voice
•Neither too
loud
nor too quiet19
Let people see your slides
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Strange situation
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Further recommendations
•Going back and forward
•Excuse-me, but I did not prepare well…
•If you are nervous, forget the pen
•Water for longer presentations
•Cell phone
•Don’t make jokes if you don’t know how to
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Let’s do it together
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Some fun
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Font style
•Calibri
•Arial
•Century Gothic
•Comic Sans MS
•Tahoma
•Brush scriptBrush scriptBrush scriptBrush script
•Courier New
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•Times New Roman
•Garamond
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Please use “Sans Serif” style
Font size
•72 points
•48 points
•32 points
•20 points
•16 points
• 12 points
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10/20/30 rule
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Color scheme
•Try to read this
•Or this
•And this one
•I am sure you are lost here
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Carnaval background
•Do you like this one?
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Avoid unnecessary stuff
•I am the main message of the slide
–But can you see me?
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Introduction Preparing slides
Saving slides Giving a talk Oral techniques Some discussion Conclusion
To slide or not to slide?
•Slide-less presentation?
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Training
•Discuss about Monday’s presentations
–“Routing” project
•Observe
–Slides
–Talk
•We will discuss later
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TOOLS TO PREPARE SLIDES
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MS Powerpoint
•The one I am using…
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Latex
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Openoffice
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Keynote
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The old style…
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How to choose your tool
•It depends on
–Computer, OS, content
•Example
–Equations
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POSTERS
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Are posters important?
•Yes!
•Opportunities
–Conferences (ongoing work or not)
–Summarize results in your lab
–Disseminate a project’s idea
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Effective poster
•Focused
–A single message
•Graphic
–Graphs/images tell the story, not text
•Ordered
–Sequence should be obvious
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Some discussion
•I brought some posters for discussion…
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http://www.hbv2003.slu.edu/poster_links.html
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Papers???
•Yes, papers have contents but also a style
•Reviewers have dozens of papers to read
–Good presentation is fundamental
•Besides the contents of course
Let’s discuss
•A few minutes to compare two papers
–Focus only on the presentation
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HOMEWORK
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2 homeworks
•Fortunately, the final project ☺☺☺☺
•Homework 1: Slides
–http://www-rp.lip6.fr/crp-metho-slides/
•Homework 2: Paper
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Deadline
•In fact, 2 deadlines…
•Deadline 1: October 26, 5pm
–First version (complete)
•Deadline 2: November 2, 5pm
–Camera ready
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