チュートリアル
英語チュートリアル／16:30～17:30 会場：ROOM1
「Poster Session Presentations: Take the Opportunity!」
For a long time, “Poster Sessions” have been a major component at first-rate technical/scientific conferences, in all academic fields, the world over. Research posters emerged in the 1960s, and the poster session became a common conference activity in the 1970s. Although some may regard the poster session as a minor event alongside the more prestigious oral presentations, its value should not be casually dismissed: It is a fantastic opportunity for young researchers to get rich experience in research presentation, in a relatively low-pressure and low-risk setting. It builds confidence and promotes professional networking. The speaker will touch on two main areas: poster design and poster explanation, that is, how to create posters that stop visitors and how to effectively convey your printed words and graphics as a living message. A few examples of “bad” and “good” posters will be shown and briefly analyzed.
Ron Read
（Human Global Communications Co., Ltd. Kansai Branch Vice President/Osaka Manager）
Ron Read is vice president and Osaka manager of Human Global Communications Co., Ltd., previously Kurdyla and Associates, a communications firm established in 1969. He holds a bachelor degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon, and before coming to Japan worked as a radio news reporter-producer and a newspaper editor. His work involves training technical rewriters and presentation trainers, rewriting academic papers and other documents, and training presenters before conferences. He has given seminars at Kyoto University, Osaka University of Arts, Panasonic Corp., and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has collaborated with Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Japan Society of English for Research (J-SER), Keihanna Venture Championship (KVeCS), and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). He is secretary of Kinki Macintosh Users Group. He writes the quarterly column “Author’s Toolkit” for IEICE (personal-use copies at http://hgckansai.com/download/).