2002 IEEE Radio and
Wireless Conference (RAWCON2002)
Presentation Guidelines
Please observe the following
guidelines as you prepare your presentation (either oral or poster) for
RAWCON2002. Many of these suggestions may seem obvious, and they are all
fairly easy to follow. The more you follow these guidelines, the more likely
it is that the audience (most of whom are not experts in your subject)
will comprehend your presentation.
Presentation Outline and
Contents
In many cases the Introduction
is the most important part of your presentation. Most of the people watching
a RAWCON oral presentation (or standing near a poster) are not specialists
in your field. One of the purposes of RAWCON is for attendees to learn
outside their specialty. Therefore your Introduction should:
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Explain the question that is
addressed by your work
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Explain the original aspects
of your work
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Explain the significance of
your results
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Point out any connections between
your results and other disciplines or specialties
The Body describes your
methods and results:
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Show your most important results
first.
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Emphasize block diagrams and
plots, not words and equations.
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If some of your results do not
fit into the allotted time or space, refer the audience to your printed
paper in the Proceedings.
The Summary:
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Remind the audience of the original
question
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Briefly restate your results
and their significance
Presentation Graphics
Some members of your audience
will be sitting in the back of the room, or standing at the back of the
group near your poster. Your presentation must be readable to them.
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Use large fonts and high contrast
colors for text
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Use wide and dark lines, and
high contrast in plots
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Please do NOT just display pages
from your printed paper
Presentation Equipment
For oral presentations,
presenters have the choice of using hard-copy viewgraphs on an overhead
projector, or connecting their laptop computer to a VGA projector. In case
of operational difficulties with the VGA projector, we recommend that authors
bring hard-copy viewgraphs as a backup.
Poster presenters have the
opportunity to show one or two viewgraphs during the "Poster Preview" segment
prior to the Poster Session. In order to save time we would prefer that
poster presenters use hard-copy viewgraphs instead of the VGA projector
for the "Poster Preview".
p.staecker@ieee.org
http://www.rawcon.org
(Modified:23 April 2002)