Your presentations on the readings will take place in the last part of the course. Only the presenter is required to do the additional reading for a topic, although all students are welcome to do so.
You will present 1 paper. You will have a total
of 20 minutes. Aim for 15-17 minutes of presentation and 3-5
minutes for discussion/questions.
Showing a demo or a video of one of the systems in action can be very
helpful to show your colleagues the look and feel of an interactive
system. If you want do this and plan to use my laptop to present,
contact me in advance (at least the day before) so that we can sort
whether the demo will indeed run.
You may use my laptop for presentations if you do not have your own. If you need to use anything
except for PDF or PowerPoint, check with me in advance to make sure
that the required software is installed on my machine. By 1pm on the
day of class, post a note on the Presentations discussion thread on
Canvas with your presentation slides, and tell me whether you're using
your machine or my laptop.
Topics
Topic and Time Signup
Post one or two topic choices by Fri Oct 27 at
5pm, in the Canvas discussion thread on Presentation Topics.
You have the option to also specify a single "veto"
day on which you do not want to present (from the set of
possibilities: Nov 7, 14, 21, 28, Dec 5).
I will send out the schedule and post papers soon after that; the
paper link will be posted by at least one week before your
presentation.
Content
Your presentation should both describe
the visualization system presented in the paper and
analyze according to the
framework presented in the VAD book. You will need to present the critical ideas in the paper so
that your colleagues in the class have a basis for understanding your
subsequent discussion. Part of this assignment is to use your
judgement on what those critical ideas are and how to concisely
present them. You should
discuss strengths and weaknesses.
Critique whether the proposed tools and techniques in these papers
actually solve the intended domain problem.
Slides
You should prepare slides to accompany your talk.
See the previous versions of this
course for many good examples
of student presentations, but note that the expectations and format
have changed this year. You may use the software platform of your
choice to present these slides, as long as it's also possible to
create a PDF version of your talk for the course web site. Most people
use PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, or latex/beamer. It's fine to
just send PDF; if you're using
something like PowerPoint, please do also send the PDF along with the
source file. Always include slide numbers.
Grading
I've used this template for grading for the past several years (but I reserve the
right to change it):
Presentation Preparation
For advice on giving technical talks, see
Tamara Munzner
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