Poster Presentations 101

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Poster Presentations
Effective
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Presentation outline

• Why research posters?
• Visual communication tools
• Critique
• Details about poster format and design
• Helpful links

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Why give Scientific Posters?

• To serve as a basis for structured communication
• To convey findings in scientific research
• To share ideas with colleagues
• To get criticism and constructive input to the
  project
• To serve as an alternative to longer oral
  presentations
• To learn how to organize and effectively present
  research data

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• An effective poster- visual communications tool

Why poster presentation?
Features of effective poster
a source of information a conversation
starter a summary of your work an
advertisement of your work
Focused
focused on single message
Graphics
a picture is worth a thousand words
Organized
well organized


Know your audience
Not a standard research paper stuck to the board
Most audiences includes people in same field
of specialization closely related field
unrelated fields (Woolsey 1989)
Explain why your work is important Describe
the objective(s) of your work Briefly explain
the methods Succinctly state results,
conclusions, and recommendations Include Main
Reference(s)
Adapted from Hess, G.R., Tosney K., and Liegel
L., (2010). Creating Effective Poster
Presentations. http//www.ncsu.edu/project/poster
s
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• http//www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/exampl
  es/GeneFlowInLions/

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Two Types of Posters
Banner-style title
One Sheet Poster
Large document printed on a special printer

• Multiple Panel Poster - which can be mounted on
  colorful poster board

or a
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Effective posters share the following traits

• Viewer-friendly style with large (not small)
  typeface informative subheadings
• Use pictures, drawing and cartoons to present the
  majority of the information
• Small offerings of information vs. long
  paragraphs of text (bullets not sentences)
• Logical and orderly progression of presentation
  of information
• Summary statement(s) of key aspects
• Easily understood language without jargon or
  undefined acronyms

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Is there a standard format?

• Title, telling others the title of the project,
  the people involved and their affiliation.
• Introduction that should include clear statements
  about the problem that you are trying to solve,
  the characteristics that you are trying to
  discover or the proofs that you are trying to
  establish. These should then lead to declarations
  of project aims and objectives.
• Theory or Methodology section that explains the
  basis of the technique that you are using or the
  procedure that you have adopted in your study.
  You should also state and justify any
  assumptions, so that your results could be viewed
  in the proper context.

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• Results section that you use to show illustrative
  examples of the main results of the work.
• Conclusion section, listing the main findings of
  your investigation.
• Further Work section that should contain your
  recommendations and thoughts about how the work
  could be progressed other tests that could be
  applied, etc.

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In Summary

• Tell viewers ...
• the context of your problem and why it is
  important (Introduction),
• your objective and what you did (Objective
  Methods),
• what you discovered (Results), and
• what the answer means in terms of the context
  (Discussion).

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• Minimize text - use images and graphs instead.
• Keep text elements to 50 words or fewer.
• Use phrases rather than full sentences.
• Use an active voice.
• Avoid jargon (depends somewhat on audience).
• Left-justify text avoid centering and
  right-justifying text.
• Use a serif font (e.g., Times) for most text -
  easier to read. Sans-serif font (e.g., Helvetica)
  OK for titles and headings

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Text sizes
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Stay focus on your message and keep it simple!
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Selected resources

• http//www.tc.umn.edu/schne006/tutorials/poster_d
  esign/
• http//www.postersw.com/