How to give an effective research

presentation

Extra: Golden Rules (NC Lab. Version)

• 두괄식으로 하라 . • 자신이 해석해서 자기 얘기를 하라 .• 시나리오를 통해서 얘기하라 .• ¼ 의 시간 동안 발표의 수준이 결판이 난다 .• Introduction 에서 청중과 호흡이 맞아야

한다 . • 첫 번째 page 에 그림이 나와야 한다 . • 감정을 표현 하라• Presentation is performance

3 phases

1. Presentation after developing a scenario– Motivation!– Problem

2. Presentation after developing a solution approach– Key idea!!– Technical challenge– Related work

3. Presentation after finishing the project– Experiments– Conclusion, one line comment

Outline of 1st phase presentation

• Title• Table of Content• Motivation

– Application Scenario (if needed)• Problem• Goal of the project

1st phase

• Example

1st phase

• Motivation– Make people think together throughout the talk

• By using an interesting scenario• By expressing the scenario & example using a

figure in a slide

• Problem– Be illustrative enough to help people guess the

problems in the motivation• Put the problems together in the figure which

expresses the motivation• Explain it straight-forward as possible to make people

to agree about the problem

2nd phase

• Title• Table of Content• Motivation

– Application Scenario (if needed)• Problem• Solution Approach (Key idea)• Technical challenges• Related work

2nd phase

• Solution approach– You must identify the key idea.

• “ Scalable P2P structure” is No Good.• “Scalable File Sharing through decentralized/distributed file inde

xing” is better

– Be specific. Don’t leave your audience to figure it out for themselves.

– Be absolutely specific. Say “If you remember nothing else, remember this.”

– Organize your talk around this specific goal. Ruthlessly prune material that is irrelevant to the key idea.

2nd phase

• Solution approach– Use figures or animations in a slide

describing the approach• Make audience to catch the idea from an

example figure or animation• Do not discourage people by putting gory

details into a slide

Gory details

2nd phase

• Example

2nd phase

• Technical challenge– Technical challenge should be introduced

together with the solution approach– It is effective if the challenges were

expressed in the figure describing the approach

– The reason why it is a challenge should be agreed by the audience• Connect the reason to the scenario if possible

2nd phase

• Example

2nd phase

• Example

2nd phase

• Related work– Dealing with related work while introducing

your idea• Generally, you’ll compare while explaining the

– Problem formulation process– Solution approach

– Abstract their key idea and emphasize the difference

• Introduce their key idea and weak points/limitations• Introduce the difference between the problems and

following limitations

2nd phase

• Example

2nd phase

• Related work– Dealing with related works in detail

usually in a separate “Related Research” section• Summarize existing research works in the

related areas– If possible, establish your own way (or view) in

classifying or summarizing the related works

• Summarize researches that are technically related

2nd phase

• Example

3rd phase

• Title• Table of Content• One Line Comment about your system• Motivation

– Application Scenario (if needed)

• Problem• Solution Approach• Technical issues• Experiments• Related work• Conclusion

3rd phase

• One line comment about your system– To interest people and to make people guess

your system

– An example form describing a creative system • Introducing the goal (motivation)• Introducing the problem• Introducing the key idea

=> In one sentence

3rd phase

• Make people believe the experiments were reasonable– Show experiment scenario, parameters and set

up– Show the main objective of your experiment

• Emphasize the effect of your system– By highlighting a core experiment

• Through the figures having good, distinct curve

– But do not hide or ignore the weak point of your system or the outliers

• Instead, provide your explanation about them

3rd phase

• Experiments– Avoid large tables of data

• The audience can not easily read a table• Use figures or graph instead

– Try not to put more than two or three lines in a graph• Do your best to weed out unimportant

details from your graphs

3rd phase

• Conclusion & Future work– Introduce the assumed environment

again briefly– Clarify your KEY IDEA again– Clarify the contribution of your work– Introduce your future work

General tips for an effective presentation

1. While preparing your slide2. While giving a talk3. While facing questions

Class of presentations• Conference• Defense• Business presentation• Job interview seminar (PhD)• Funding proposal/report presentation • In-class project presentation• Seminar• Paper seminar• Tutorial• Guidance .vs. Advertisement .vs. Evaluation .vs.

Discussion– Conference?, Defense? Job Interview?, Tutorial? …

While preparing your slides

• Be neat!– Check your spelling, grammar, legibility

• People tend to loose their attention even for a small mistake

• Small mistakes induce distrust• Let people concentrate on the main idea by

not making small mistakes

While preparing your slides

• Avoid overcrowding a slide– Use one or more slides for a concept

• People will read instead of listening• People will get board by a slide full of text• Just leave KEY IDEAS in a slide

While preparing your slides

• Be Brief!– Slides are not a book

• Just put key phrases in a slide and explain• Prevent yourself from reading a slide• Make people perceive at first sight• Exclude gory details

– It will make audiences sleepy

While preparing your slides

개념화

구체적 , 명료한 단어 선택

구조화

그림 (if possible)

Process of slide production

While Giving Your Talk: Being seen, being heard

Speak to someone at the back of the room, even if you have a microphone on

Make personal contact; identify a nodder, and speak to him or her (better still, more than one)

Personal contact includes Eye contact, gestures, approach

Watch audience for questions…

While Giving your Talk: Your main weapon

Examples are your main weapon

To motivate the work To convey the basic intuition To illustrate the Idea in action To show extreme cases To highlight shortcomings

When time is short, omit the general case, not the example

While giving a talk (conference)

Surrounded by strangers Not enough time

The purpose of your talk…To give your audience an intuitive feel for an idea

To make them foam at the mouth with eagerness to know about the detailsTo engage, excite, provoke them

You should conquer them in the introductory partBy using a interesting scenario

While giving a talk (conference)

You have 2 minutes to engage your audience before they start to doze

And the quality is determined in the first quarter

Why should I tune into this talk?

What is the problem?

Why is it an interesting problem?

Give an example! (e.g. Battlefield monitoring)

Of course by using a diagram in the first slide

Motivation

두괄식으로 하라

Keep To your Timeline! (conference)

Absolutely without fail, finish on time

Audiences get restive and essentially stop listening when your time is up. Continuing is very counter productive

Simply truncate and conclude

When you present in English

• Memorize the script first, then control the speed and improve styles – e.g., make it more colloquial !!!– Nothing is possible without memorizing the

script !!!

• Rehearse more than 10 times• Start preparing before a month

• If you do this 3 times– 영어를 득도하리라– The best way to master English!!!

Q & A

• Questions are not a problem

• Questions are a golden golden golden opportunity to connect with your audience

• Specifically encourage questions during your talk: – pause briefly now and then, ask for questions