A Good Presentation Technique

Prof. Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury

Dept. of EEE, KUET
&
Head, Dept. of BME
Email: mzaman@eee.kuet.ac.bd

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 Any Motivation?

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➢A good representation surely
adds significant value
➢A bad representation surely
reduces significant value

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 Contents
➢ Introduction
➢ Methodology
➢ Result
➢ Conclusions

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 Selecting Topic for Presentation
➢ An exceptional something always adds value
➢ Try to select something interesting
➢ Better to select one that most of the audience can
understand
➢ Quality of work is important
❖ Journal
❖ Impact factor
❖ Publisher
❖ Journal is better than conference

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 Time Allocation
➢ Time should be properly allocated among the slides
➢ Should focus on
❖ New items
❖ Methodology
❖ Key findings
❖ Significant in performance
➢ Do not spent to much time on Content/Introduction slides

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 Structure of Talk
➢ Beginning
❖ Purpose of your talk (may be you can tell in the 1st slide)
❖ Identify key issues
❖ Provide a map of your talk (Contents)
➢ Middle
❖ Why the work was done?
❖ How was it done?
❖ What was found?
➢ End
❖ Clear summary of main points
❖ Take home message
❖ Finish positively

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 Steps to Success
➢ Good start
❖ Be confident
➢ Voice
❖ Be audible (Capable to heard)
❖ Do not hurry – slow down
➢ Body
❖ Positioning
❖ Hands
❖ Mannerisms
❖ Eye contact
➢ Timing
➢ Good Ending
❖ Clear and concise ending

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 Slide Style (1/5)
➢ Front
❖ Informal and friendly style
❖ Chose a suitable front so easy to read
❖ Type size should be 18 points or larger
❖ References can be in 14 point font
❖ AVOID USING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE IT’S
MUCH HARDER TO READ!

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 Slide Style (2/5)
➢ Layout
❖ Use good quality images
❖ Do not use too many slides!
➢ Text
❖ About 6 words per line
❖ About 8 lines per slide
❖ Keep text blocks short and simple

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 Slide Style (3/5)
➢ Graphics must be well designed, simple, and readable by
everyone
➢ Use as few graphics as needed that can be discussed in the
time allotted
➢ Do not show long or complicated formulas or
equations
➢ Table preparation
❖ Use row and column as minimum as possible
❖ If possible use graph instead of table

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 Slide Style (4/5)
➢ Slide #
➢ Bigger font size
➢ Information as only key points not sentences
➢ Use bullet but not paragraph

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 Slide Style (5/5)
➢ Too colorful is not good
➢ Light background>> Dark writing
➢ Dark background>> Light writing

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 Memorable Presentation?
➢ Tell stories
❖ Sharing an event from your life or another anecdote
increases your relatability.

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 Some Trips for Good Presentation (1/2)
➢ Do not read your slides
➢ Do not use too many gimmicks (videos)
➢ Do not pace up and down but also don’t stand rigid!
➢ Do not wave your pointer all over the slide
➢ Do not talk to the screen
➢ Do not apologize for anything in your presentation
❖ If you believe something will be hard to read or understand, don't
use it
➢ Do not use UMMH or AHHH to fill transitions

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 Some Trips for Good Presentation (1/2)
➢ Do face the audience and make eye contact
➢ Do practice in advance
➢ Do ask your friends for feedback
➢ Do RELAX and ENJOY your presentation!

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 Title Slide (1/2)
➢ Greetings
➢ Addressing chair and audiences
➢ Introduce yourself
➢ Explain your title (very short)
❖ Read title
❖ Tell what works was done

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 Title Slide (2/2): Example
➢ Good morning/good noon/Assalamualikum..
➢ Title of presentation
➢ Who you are
❖ I am ------
❖ I am from--------
❖ My presentation topic is----
❖ The main purpose of my presentation……

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 Introduction Slide/Slides
➢ Can have a single slide or several for each item depending
on time
➢ Motivation of the work
❖ Why this work was done
❖ Problem statement
❖ How this work can add the value for present technology
➢ Related works and background knowledge
❖ State-of-the Art
❖ Some definitions
➢ Contribution
❖ What are the contribution of this work
− Presented a new method of ..
− Developed a novel system model
− Experimentally…….

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 Methodology Slide(s)
➢ How the proposed system work?
➢ How the proposed system differ from existing?
➢ Block diagram
➢ Equation
➢ How simplicity?
➢ What new?
➢ How computation complexity?

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 Result/Performance Analysis Slide
➢ Provide basic assumptions and environment for the
simulation or experiment
➢ Provide Figure and very simple explanation for each of the
results
➢ Explain for each result/figure
❖ Figure should be big size as much as possible
❖ What was done?
❖ Key findings and achievement
❖ How differ from others

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 Comparison of Bandwidth Utilization
➢ Higher BW utilization

1.00

0.98
Bandwidth utilization

0.96

0.94 Hard-QoS scheme

Non-prioritized bandwidth-adaptive scheme
Proposed scheme
0.92 Hard-QoS with 5% guard band scheme
AQoS handover priority scheme

0.90
4 8 12 16 20 24
New call arrival rate (calls/s)

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 Conclusion Slide
➢ Why this work is important?
➢ What was done?
➢ What are the key findings?
➢ How better your work?
➢ Impact of your work
➢ Limitation/challenges need to be overcome in future

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 Last slide: Example
➢ This is the end of my presentation
➢ Now time for question
➢ I will answer your question if you have any
➢ Thank you for your nice question
➢ Thanks everyone for your kind attention

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 Choice of Template
➢ Very Important
➢ You may design it according to your desire
➢ Infographic is a new and attractive one
❖ You should learn for your future

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 Sample Slides

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 What are Femtocells?
➢ Small cellular BS
➢ Designed for use in residential or small business environments
➢ Very low power single-mode mobile phone
➢ Connected using standard broadband
❖ DSL, Cable, FTTx, PLC, WiMAX, etc.
➢

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 Bad Slide
➢ Small cellular BS, designed for use in residential or small business environments
➢ Fully featured but very low power single-mode mobile phone
➢ Connected using standard broadband DSL, Cable, FTTx, PLC, WiMAX, etc.
➢ Operate in licensed spectrum

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 Bad Slide
➢ Small cellular BS, designed for use in residential or small business
environments
➢ Fully featured but very low power single-mode mobile phone
➢ Connected using standard broadband DSL, Cable, FTTx, PLC,
WiMAX, etc.
➢ Operate in licensed spectrum

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 Bad Slide
Humans have been telling stories with
pictures since the Palaeolithic age. You
could say responding favorably to a
powerfully delivered presentation is
ingrained in our DNA.
A story helps you deliver your points in
engaging and exciting ways to which your
audience can relate. Each point will be
more memorable when there is a relatable
narrative attached to it.
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 Bad Slide
➢ Small cellular BS, designed for use in residential
or small business environments
➢ Fully featured but very low power single-mode
mobile phone
➢ Connected using standard broadband DSL,
Cable, FTTx, PLC, WiMAX, etc.
➢ Operate in licensed spectrum

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 Moving Femtocell

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 Why FAP at Vehicle? (1/2)
➢ Short distance between the user and the FAP
❖ provides better signal quality.
➢ The inside FAPs are connected to the core network through
the outside macrocellular networks or the satellite networks

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 Femtocells in Bus/Car
➢ Penetration loss is avoided

Satellite
Satellite

**
FSO AP
**

Macrocellular
Macrocellular BS
BS Position of FAP
** inside the bus

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 Conclusions
➢ Front size/style
➢ Color choice
➢ Key points instead of sentence or paragraph
➢ As simple as possible
➢ Slide #
➢ Eye contact
➢ Time allocation
➢ Clear summary

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