How to give a good presentation

• Market your ideas to get citations

Methods to achieve the goals

• Keep the presentation sufficiently non-technical and still not too general.
• Make a positive impression
  • Jokes
  • Eye contact
• Concentrate on clarity
  • structure
  • motivation
  • rhythm
  • examples
  • lots of pictures

Team B

Goals

• positioning the work (how it's related to the work of others)
• communicating the novelty (explaining your new contribution)

Means

• communicating simply
  • concise slides
  • not too many details
  • not too many new concepts
  • clear, top-down structure
• captivating the audience
  • real-world applications
  • comparing to other work
  • presentation style
    • tempo (can change, but suitably)
    • loud voice
    • audience participation

  Team C

  Goals

  • Explain how research relates to the field; what it implies for:
    • Applications (what can it be used for)
    • Research (what does it means for other researchers)

  Properties

  • Motivation in terms of what results can be used for
    • Use practical examples the audience can relate to
  • Clear structure to explain how things in the presentation connect to each other.
    • E.g. a story-like presentation
    • Explain what is a problem, solution, good, bad, unclear...
  • Speak to the audience in their own language
    • Avoid overdosing on formal representation; use natural language instead.
    • Keep your slides simple and clear.
    • Speak to the audience, not the slides, and keep it clear and the language natural.

  Team D

  GOALS

  • Advertising your own work
  • Informing Think about the audience
  • structure
  • detail level wrt audience
  • visibility + loud & clear
  • enthusiasm

  Informative presentation

  • sparse slides
  • outline
  • introduction
  • summary/conclusion

  Mental attitude

  • sleep well and enough
  • have a drink and relax

  Team E

  Goals

  • Marketing your work + yourself + your group

  Means

  • Give the audience (the illusion of) understanding
    • targeting
    • pictures
    • examples
    • motivation
  • Make the audience happy
    • staying on schedule
    • avoid the boring details
    • presentation skills
    • be enthusiastic

  Some additional articles (found by Michael)

  • Veljko Milutinovic. A Good Method to Prepare and Use Transparencies for Research Presentations. IEEE TCCA NEWSLETTER March 1997.
  • Veljko Milutinovic. The Best Method for Presentation of Research Results. IEEE TCCA NEWSLETTER, September 1996, 6 pages. See