Tips/Suggestions/Ideas

Choosing a paper

• Read it before making others read it
• Choose one that you think is interesting
• Choose one that is related to your work
• Choose one that you have questions about
• Choose one with a methodology that you think you might use
• Choose a paper that you think presents some research opportunities for us
• Choose a "best paper"
• Choose 2 contrasting papers
• Choose a classic (one that has been cited many times)

Summarizing a paper

• Keep it brief (e.g., problem, methodology, key results, why you chose the paper)
• Show accompanying video or demo, if one exists

Facilitating a discussion

• Conduct special activities tied to the paper
• Encourage everyone to contribute to discussion

Critiquing a paper

• Focus on how one would improve the research
• Look at good or novel organization
• Look at how we can use the paper's positive points in our papers
• Relate the paper to our research
• Come up with suggestions for future work