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Sameer SahasrabudheProject Manager, Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay

Research Scholar, YCMOU, Nashik

Visual communication skills

Talk OutlinePresentations are of various types, and typically the content should decide the type of the presentation

Using images, animations and videos are helpful in communication

Use of colour adds to the impact of certain keywords or phrases

Emphasize can be provided by changing fonts, and the font attributes like BOLD, Italic and

Underlined

While displaying equations: use the math fonts to ensure correctness.Ex:

Try to use white background for the equatons to make them clear

Have those corrected from a friend who knows it

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Sameer SahasrabudheResearch Scholar, YCMOU

Project Manager, Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay

VisualCommunication

skills

Courtesy: Kentaro Toyama Microsoft Research Summer School on Computing for Socio-Economic Development MSR India / Indian Institute of ScienceJune 25, 2010

What is the goal of your talk?

The audience should…

understand,

remember, and

be impressed

with your message.

Outline

Plan - Execute - Impress

Typical Movie Plot

A typical film story

IntroductionProblem / ObservationRelated WorkProposed Solution / AnalysisResults / Proofs / AnalysisFuture Work / Discussion

Boy meets girlGirl ignores boyBoy tries to probeBoy plots to get girlThe plot works!Happiness ever after

Set upConflictFalse climaxRising actionFalse climaxFinale

The typical talk outline actually makes a pretty good story!

Everyone loves stories

Outline

Plan - Execute - ImpressOutline

Bulleted DetailsGraphics

Colour schemesTypography

Visual effectsAppeal

PRACTICE

BrainstormAnalyzeOrganize

Plan

•Brainstorm

•Analyze

•Organize: Mind maps

Example of brainstorming

• Topics:

• Advantages and challenges of using animation in education

• Impact of mythology on Bollywood

• What’s the need of the hour:Medical tablets or Digital tablets

Impact of mythology on Bollywood

Brainstorm• Just start with the words, concepts, ideas

about the topic

• Keep writing them on one paper, board

After you are done..

• Find relationships with the topic

• Organize

• Categorizing and analyzing


How to see relationships in the brainstorming?


CommonalitiesFamily rivalry

Hero with super natural

powersCrooked relatives

Dependable and powerful

friends

Based on famous

scriptures

Hero’s musical talent

Similarity in the plot

Adaptation with

appropriatereferences


Structure


StructureA Coincidence Reemerging UnspentA Coincidence Emergent Nurse Ping

Mountain Comic Account Mini Om A Iconic Mom Nut

Computer science and engineering

CommunicationThanks to the Internet Anagram Server: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/


http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

Example of chunking

• Slot the brainstorming ideas into different bullets of the presentation outline

• Introduction• Problem Statement• Related Work• Proposed Solution• Results / Proof / Analysis• Future Work


• Introduction• Is mythology so much important?

• Problem / Observation• Various themes/scriptures

• Related Work• Various examples

• Proposed Solution / Analysis• What are the commonalities?

• Results / Proofs / Analysis• Site few prominent examples

• Future Work / Discussion• What could be the future? • Leave an open question to the audience by creating

an interesting situation


Take your topicand brainstorm ideas!This is an ideation stage, don’t be judgemental

Write ALL the words, phrases that come to your mind

Mind map

• Use the analysis and organization

• Start with central idea and radiate the sub sections

• Express using visuals

• Label the lines to connect the thoughts

Mind map guidelines1. Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colors.2. Use images, symbols, codes, and dimensions throughout your mind map.3. Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.4. Each word/image is best alone and sitting on its own line.5. The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central

lines are thicker, organic and thinner as they radiate out from the centre.6. Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support.7. Use multiple colors throughout the mind map, for visual stimulation and

also to encode or group.8. Develop your own personal style of mind mapping.9. Use emphasis and show associations in your mind map.10. Keep the mind map clear by using radial hierarchy, numerical order or

outlines to embrace your branches.

Mind mapof themind mapguidelines

Mind mapping tools

• FreeMind - free mind mapping software

• XMind - free mind mapping software

• Think Buzan - free (limited)/paid (full)

http://www.xmind.net/

http://www.xmind.net/

Assignment

Create mind map of your groups topic and upload it

Next class

• Discussion of few mind maps

• How to create presentations?

• Executing your plan

• From outline to multiple pages

Outline

Plan - Execute - Impress5th March 12th March

14th March19th March21st March

OutlineBulleted Details

Graphics

Colour schemesTypography

Visual effectsAppeal

PRACTICE

BrainstormAnalyzeOrganize

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