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INCOSE 2002Paper Presentation

Suggestions

July 29, 2002

Firstname N. Surname

Company Name

Company City, State

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Content Suggestions

• We encourage:– A “Topics” slide as the second slide

– A “Conclusions” or “Summary” slide (second-to-last slide)

– An “Author Contact Information” slide as the last slide

– Use of graphics, tables, diagrams or photos

– Appropriate use of colors and color backgrounds

– Use of the footer format contained on these slides

• Please avoid: Having too many slides, too much, complexity, too much animation

• Be creative; don’t feel overly constrained by these suggestions

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Text Slides

• Use 24 pt font for major points– Use Arial or Comic Sans if possible; Use a minimum font size of

18 pt (or larger) font for subbullets

– If using Times New Roman, increase font size to 28 point bold for major bullets and 24 point for subbullets

• Keep to no more than 5-7 major points per slide• Make all text bold -- for easier readability• Avoid any “eye test” content

– This is the most frequent complaint about presentations

• Use sentence style (=Initial cap, first word only)• Center the body vertically and horizontally

– As was done on some of these slides

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Graphic Slides

• Graphics, photos, tables, diagrams and appropriate artwork and contribute to effective communications

• Make sure your graphics are readable

• Use appropriate colors to ensure contrast

Too Small,Lines Too Thin

This Is Borderline

This Is Better

Not Good Maybe?? Better

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Presentation Time

• Each speaker will have 25 minutes• Plan on:– About 2-3 minutes for set-up, speaker intro– About 17-19 minutes for you to present– About 4-5 minutes for Q&A

• Session Chairs will indicate 5 and 2 minutes to-go

• Plan to stay within your time limit

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Presentation Equipment

• Computer projection equipment will be provided• All authors are requested to use this mode of

presentation• We will accommodate only PowerPoint format for

electronic presentations• A vugraph projector will be available as a back-

up; bring a set of vugraphs as a fallback

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Presentation Equipment (Cont.)

• A laser pointer will be provided

• Both a podium and a lavaliere microphone will be available

• All presenters will need to use microphones since session roomsare large

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Submittal of Presentations

• Please bring two PC floppies, CD or Zip disks of your presentation to the conference -- one disk for back up, just in case

• Presentations will be preloaded the evening prior to your talk.

• Bring your labeled PC disk, CD or zip disk (e.g. Track 1 Session 2- McKinney, Tues. 15:00) to the Speaker Ready Room between the hours of 2:30 pm - 7pm the day prior to your presentation for preloading.