Presentation Skills

CS 160 Section
With your TA, Wai-ling Ho-Ching
Motivation
 Design Meetings
 Presentations for Management
 Conference Presentations
 Presentations for this class
 Teaching section – one day this could be
you!

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Motivation
 People will judge you and your ideas based
on your ability to communicate!
 7/93 % Rule
 In school: Evaluation is mostly paper-
based
 Out there: It’s the reverse…
 The Good News: These skills can be
practiced
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Overview (Voice, body, visuals, content)

Friends, Romans,
countrymen
LEND me your ears…. Julius’ Eulogy
•Who
•Friends
•Romans
•Countrymen
•What
•Lend ears

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 Body
 Stance
 Dress
 Facial Expression
Pleasant grin

Firmly planted feet,

Clean-cut, pleasant
square with
dress
shoulders
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Body
 Stance  Gestures
 Dress
Aim here for
 Facial Expression optimal
gesticulation

Avoid The “Flipper”

Zone

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Body
 Stance  Gestures
 Dress  Eye contact
 Facial Expression
The 4 Quadrant Method
1 2

3 4

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Voice
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them; ”

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Voice
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them; ”

• Voice projection

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Voice
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, LEND me your
ears;
I come to BURY Caesar, NOT to PRAISE him.
The EVIL that men do lives AFTER them; ”

• Voice projection
• Meaningful Pauses
• Pitch
• Consonants, Vowels
• Speak S L O W L Y ….

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Visuals
 Whiteboard
 Handouts
Julius’ Eulogy
 Powerpoint
•Who
•Friends
•Romans
Friends, Romans, •Countrymen
countrymen •What
LEND me your ears…. •Lend ears

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 Visuals
 Use diagrams when possible
 Communication (easier to understand, more potent)
 Spatial memory
 Impact (less cognitive, more visceral)

Elements of Dynamic Delivery Elements of Dynamic Delivery

7% Content
55% Body Language
 55% Body Language
38% Voice
 38% Voice
 7% Content

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Visuals
 Picture how your slides will look when
blown up and projected
 Font sizes
 Image resolution
 Size of text on screenshots
 Room lighting

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Practice
Do a dress rehearsal. Try to simulate the real thing. Many things can go
wrong:
 On your own laptop
 Power save mode, laptops auto-sleeping during presentations
 The room
 Video output from the computer, sound output, volume, proper
lighting, noise
 Using a computer other than your own
 Powerpoint replaces bullets and fonts with random ones, demos stop
working (see below)
 Demos
 Failing because they required the network, Internet, a particular
version of an OS, random dll’s that are missing, video card settings…
 Files disappearing
 Just plain crashing
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Practice!!

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Evaluation
 What has been good?
 choice of activities, topics, style of teaching, grading,
more structure, less structure in section, section
material too “fluffy”?
 What has been bad?
 What would you like to do our our remaining
sections?
 Ideas: CHI Videos, HCI Research, Other HCI topics,
more discussion of homework, discussion of lecture
material, groupware, assistive technologies
 Any suggestions?
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