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Break free from the mundane PowerPoint BS.
Here are 8 powerful tips to engage, inspire, and enlighten your audience at #chi2023 ↓
1. Discriminability:
Differentiating between two properties requires a large enough proportion to be easily distinguished.
Clear patterns that stand out from the background are necessary for detecting the material to be encoded.
We tend to underestimate the size of areas.
Differentiating between two properties requires a large enough proportion to be easily distinguished.
Clear patterns that stand out from the background are necessary for detecting the material to be encoded.
We tend to underestimate the size of areas.
2. Perceptual organization:
Organizing elements into groups makes them more memorable.
Elements nearby tend to be grouped together (proximity).
Similar elements are usually grouped together (similarity).
For example, height and width are often organized into a single shape.
Organizing elements into groups makes them more memorable.
Elements nearby tend to be grouped together (proximity).
Similar elements are usually grouped together (similarity).
For example, height and width are often organized into a single shape.
3. Salience:
Large perceptible differences are crucial to catching your attention and holding it.
Your brain automatically directs your visual attention to stimuli that stand out.
Use:
- movement
- text formatting
- visual disparities
- colours
to direct attention.
Large perceptible differences are crucial to catching your attention and holding it.
Your brain automatically directs your visual attention to stimuli that stand out.
Use:
- movement
- text formatting
- visual disparities
- colours
to direct attention.
4. Limited capacity:
People have a limited capacity to process information.
If you give them too much to remember, they won't understand your message.
Simplify your message.
We can hold only four perceptual groups in working memory.
Hierarchical organization can help though.
People have a limited capacity to process information.
If you give them too much to remember, they won't understand your message.
Simplify your message.
We can hold only four perceptual groups in working memory.
Hierarchical organization can help though.
5. Informative change:
People assume that changes in perceptual qualities carry information and transmit all of the information that is required.
Provide the requisite information for a specific message.
People assume that changes in perceptual qualities carry information and transmit all of the information that is required.
Provide the requisite information for a specific message.
6. Appropriate knowledge:
Use familiar concepts, jargon, and symbols to communicate with your audience.
Connect your presentation to what your audience already knows or explicitly introduce and explain new concepts.
New or complex ideas will likely be lost on your listeners.
Use familiar concepts, jargon, and symbols to communicate with your audience.
Connect your presentation to what your audience already knows or explicitly introduce and explain new concepts.
New or complex ideas will likely be lost on your listeners.
7. Compatibility:
A message is easiest to understand when its form and meaning match.
If interpreting surface properties is inconsistent with a stimulus's symbolic meaning, its meaning is difficult to extract.
Coordinate the audio and visual elements with your text.
A message is easiest to understand when its form and meaning match.
If interpreting surface properties is inconsistent with a stimulus's symbolic meaning, its meaning is difficult to extract.
Coordinate the audio and visual elements with your text.
8. Relevance:
Remember to be relevant when presenting your research paper - too much or too little information can both be ineffective.
Too little is poor.
Too much information forces viewers to search for the relevant information.
Create a roadmap or outline at the start.
Remember to be relevant when presenting your research paper - too much or too little information can both be ineffective.
Too little is poor.
Too much information forces viewers to search for the relevant information.
Create a roadmap or outline at the start.
TL;DR: 8 principles of great slide presentations:
1. Discriminability
2. Perceptual organization
3. Salience
4. Limited processing capacity
5. Informative change
6. Appropriate knowledge
7. Compatibility
8. Relevance
1. Discriminability
2. Perceptual organization
3. Salience
4. Limited processing capacity
5. Informative change
6. Appropriate knowledge
7. Compatibility
8. Relevance
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