Tips for writing your presentation (Full Paper or PostGrad Corner)

Conference Presentation Structure

Full paper authors are not required to submit presentation outlines for pre-approval, but we suggest you start working on your presentation early. Even if your full paper is not accepted for publication, you can still present at the conference.

The Short Papers are new in 2023. Short papers do not have the Q&A session after the presentation discussing methodology and "defending" the paper. The sections suggested for the full paper should be in the presentation but very brief.

Introduction

  1. Briefly describe the focus of the overall paper and its main points
  2. Highlight background information or issues necessary to understand the direction of the paper. Assume that the audience is not be from your own design discipline.
  3. Define any key terminology needed to understand your specific topic.
  4. Give your thesis statement.

Research method and reference materials

  1. The methodology and methods must be reasonable and appropriate to the topic.
  2. Identify the methods you used to identify sources, and the rationale for selecting the sources of data. Provide sufficient detail of your procedures should so the research process can be assessed, and also reproduced by future researchers.
  3. Explain procedures used for analysing the data and arriving at your findings.

Results

Important data should be given in a visual format using tables, graphs or figures. Unexpected or negative results should also be presented.

Discussion

Assess your results and your methodology, looking at areas for improvement and future research opportunities. Compare your results to previous research. Back personal opinions with your findings, and others peer reviewed research.

Conclusion

  1. Restate your thesis/hypothesis from the introduction
  2. List the key points for embracing and/or rejecting the position/hypothesis.
  3. End with an appropriate, meaningful final statement that ties your paper together
  4. FULL PAPER AUTHORS ONLY will be given additional time which includes a Q&A session to defend their paper.

Examples of previous Full Papers

  1. Here is a brief overview about our Academic papers in general 
  2. This is a link to the 2021 Conference. Because we did it online we have all the papers that were accepted, as well as videos of some presentations. 
  3. The Conference proceedings are a downloadable PDF of all the papers
  4. Under the section "Papers" you can see all the papers in alphabetical order. Pop open to view the abstract, author and institution. Click read more to see the full paper.

In the footer of the main website, in the bright blue area, are links by category, discipline and institution so you can review other years.

Presentations

This is our YouTube playlist of the 2021 conference.