Creating User Interfaces Presentations. Abstracts. Work session. Homework: Complete studies. Prepare presentations.

Presentations Take charge. –decide how team is going to act. Show interest in your topic. Can use variety of tools –PowerPoint –Google presentations – –PDF –multiple tools (e.g., spreadsheet, browser, etc.) which of the first 4 options provides better (smoother/faster) way to invoke other tools

Presentations 101 Whatever you do –Must be readable in a large room. Tell 'em what you are going to tell 'em Tell 'em Tell 'em what you said –We're going to compare the XXX and the YYY for basic phone tasks. Though XXX does have aaa, for the basics, YYY is superior. –This is not a dramatic reading. You don't 'bury the lead', you don't have suspense…. Parallel charts, tables, and/or bullets

Presentations 101 Make systematic use of styles (bold, italic); tables, color –Not a ugly plaid shirt While being respectful of the trees, MAY be appropriate to make copies (6 to a page). –NS1013 set up does provide look-ahead feature. Paper notes may useful for you

Presentations 101 Illustrations –Screen shots On-line manuals –Photographs of use Annotation –May be duplicate slides: one without annotation and one with annotation. Can also use animation feature.

Cuomo's State of the State news/2011/jan/06/cuomos-state-powerpoint/ news/2011/jan/06/cuomos-state-powerpoint/ Cheesy? He did say that it was the first time technology used … Perhaps different form for making the point that the state government had to be …different Removed chance of comparisons with father? ???? Extra credit opportunity for general and specific comments on individual or groups of slides.

Critiques of PowerPoint Tufte: msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1http:// msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1 Patterson: Without-PowerPoint---Three-Ways-to-Engage- Audiences-Without-the-Screen&id=849127http://ezinearticles.com/?Public-Speaking- Without-PowerPoint---Three-Ways-to-Engage- Audiences-Without-the-Screen&id= Young ("teaching naked") Strips/47398/ Strips/47398/ Note: your decision. Teaching using PP or equivalent is generally better than speaking with no preparation! Extra credit opportunity to read and report on the above. This may be question on Final.

Abstracts Concise summary, words –most conferences, publications, grant agencies enforce very specific limit –Not everything in your report –formal voice Look at examples: –specify type of material, date –Try mobile phone comparison or mobile phone comparison texting or mobile devices ranking or ??

Classwork/homework Mobile device study / presentations –your research plus –published reviews/studies