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Technical oral presentation awards

The Best Oral Presentation Award or the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award will be given to the presenters making an excellent oral presentation. We hope these awards will encourage all oral presenters. Details are as follows:

• Recipients and awards

All oral presenters will be eligible. The Best Oral Presentation Award (certificate and extra prize) will be given to one presenter, and the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award (certificate and extra prize) will be given to two presenters.

• Judging policy

Achievement or future potential will not be considered. Only presentation techniques will be evaluated.

• Judging criteria

Judging will be conducted by the invited speakers and the committee members.

The evaluation is based on the following four criteria.

1. Evaluation of presentation
   Consistency of logical development, clarity of the points to be conveyed, clarity of the purpose of the research and the problem to be solved, and clarity for non-specialists.

2. Evaluation of slides
   Beauty and clarity of slides
   (clarity of charts, the appropriate amount of information, color usage, conveying the main points of each slide, etc.)

3. Evaluation of questions and answers
   Appropriateness of the responses

4. Evaluation of the abstract
   Whether the significance of the research is conveyed, the content of the research is conveyed, and whether it is consistent with the content of the presentation, etc.