Papers are allotted a maximum of 30 minutes for presentation. A presenter should design the formal presentation for a maximum of 20 minutes and 10 minutes for questions and answers. The chairman of the session has specific instructions to stop a speaker if the 20 minutes are exceeded. We strongly suggest that you do a number of dry runs prior to your actual presentation.
The presentation shall be in English.
The preferred type of presentation medium is Microsoft PowerPoint. Save the PowerPoint viewer with your presentation on disks. Presentations can also be made using 35 mm slides or overhead transparencies.
An authors’ preparation room will be provided. Use the room to check your presentation, do a dry run, or load your 35mm slides and run through them. Do not leave this until the last minute. Others may also want to use the facility and you may have to wait.
Backup presentation medium. You are highly encouraged to have a 35 mm slide or a transparency backup presentation made ready to use in case of computer failure. The conference facility has LCD projectors.
Commercial advertising is forbidden in the content and slides of your presentation. A company logo can be shown on the first introductory slide only.
Please make sure that
(1) the slides are not crowded with text and details,
(2) can be clearly read from a distance of about 50 feet when projected, and
(3) the quality of the graphs and photo images are excellent.
For the above specified maximum distance, letters that are 2 inches high and ¼ of an inch thick are usually viewed comfortably. The best way to test your slides for readability is to find a very large room, project the slides and then see if you can read them from the back of the room.
