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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

– In front of public

– Through video conference

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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

– Start your computer beforehand

– Battery charge

– Do you have a MAC?

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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 quiet

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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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PREPARING THE SLIDES

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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

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To slide or not to slide?

•Slide-less presentation?

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EXERCISE

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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

PAPERS

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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

– http://www-rp.lip6.fr/crp-metho-project/

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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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