Contents

1. 1 Preparation
2. 2 Presentation
3. 3 Judging

Preparation

• Slides must be legible from the back of a large room.
• Font size on slides should be at least 24 points, or 20 points when necessary in exceptional cases.
• Posters must be readable from 2 meters away.
• Posters must be at most 1 meter (40”) wide by 81 cm (32”) high.
• ITS2010 will supply:
• A poster board to mount each poster on,
• Pushpins to mount it with, and
• An easel to display it on.
• At the opening session 8:30am, Tuesday, June 15, each Young Researcher Track presenter will have 1 minute, with no questions.
• You will have one slide, which you must provide in advance.
• The purpose is to attract people to come see your poster.
• Just explain the problem, who should care about it, and why.
• In general, a talk or poster should advertise your paper, not replace it.
• It succeeds if people remember the key idea and main result.
• Point to the paper for equations, proofs, and other difficult material.
• Concrete examples are easier to grasp than abstract statements.
• A running example can nicely convey the problem, idea, and result.
• Avoid "textiness."
• Use visuals (graphs, diagrams, pictures) to engage the audience and communicate more clearly than prose or tables.
• Minimize the number of words – think headlines, not prose.
• Fit each bullet point on one line when possible.
• Each slide should list all its key points, since listeners may have trouble if:
• English is not their native language.  So speak simply and slowly.
• English is not your native language.  So speak simply and slowly.
• Their attention wanders due to jet lag, age, or any other reason.
• User-test your talk or poster on smart people unfamiliar with your work:
• Use their critiques to refine your presentation and verbal delivery.

Presentation

• Full papers will have 20 minutes for the talk plus 5 minutes for questions.
• Allow 1-2 minutes to present each slide.
• Number slides so audience members can refer to them easily.
• Repeat each question so that:
• Everyone hears it.
• The questioner verifies that you understood it.  If not, you can request to answer it off-line after the session.
• You get time to prepare your answer.
• Recruit a colleague beforehand to write down all the questions.  If you can't, then try to recall and write them down ASAP after your talk.
• An international conference is a unique opportunity to get valuable feedback on your work from the research community.
• But you're likely to be too busy answering the questions to remember them later.
• Short papers, including Young Researcher Track papers, will be presented as posters assigned to one of 3 lunchtime sessions:
• Tuesday, June 15:  Young Researcher Track 
• Wednesday, June 16:  first authors with last names starting A-I
• Thursday, June 17:  first authors with last names starting J-Z
• Posters will be displayed and presented as follows:
• Locate posters alphabetically by first author's last name.
• Leave your poster on easel the entire day assigned for your poster.
• Have a presenter at the poster throughout its assigned session.
• The other two days, lean your poster on the wall to keep it visible.

Judging

• To encourage good talks, posters, and Interactive Events, we will:
• Ask attendees to:
• Rate each presentation as Excellent, Good, or Needs work.
• Write what they liked most (or least) about it.
• Suggest how to improve it.
• Use this input to:
• Give as useful feedback to presenters.
• Award prizes for best presentations.