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Non-Research Tips for Information Science Researchers
情報科学研究補助技法 (Summer 2024)

SlidesKoya Narumi

Keio University

https://narumi.me/2Disclaimer

Slide design is totally up to you
You learn some design methods, but donʼt need to stick to them.

Quality-vs-time tradeoff
Any type of good presentation requires long time to prepare.
Consider how much time you can spend for preparation.

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Presentation is as important as research

If no one knows, good research is useless.
Presentation lasts even after you leave academia.

Circuit Eraser
ACM CHI EA 2015, Kickstarter

ConductAR
ACM UbiComp 2016

Liquid Pouch motors
IEEE ICRA 2017, IEEE RA-L 2020

PapilionArs Electronica 2017

A LIVE UN LIVE
六本木クロッシング 2018

Self-healing UI
ACM UIST 2019

Kirigami Haptic Swatches
ACM CHI 2020

Pop-up Print
ACM UIST 2020

poimo
ACM UIST 2020

Flower Jelly Printer
ACM CHI 2021

Crane
ACM TOCHI (CHI) 2023

Inkjet 4D Print
ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH) 2023

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Lets study three presentation methods

Week 3: Slides

Week5: Figures

Week6: Videos

6Lets study three presentation methods

Week 3: Slides

Week5: Figures

Week6: Videos

Week 1: Slide
Basic

Advanced

守展Week 1: Slide
Basic

Advanced守展

9Four Design Principles as Basics“The Non-Designerʼs Design Book,” English edition & Japanese edition

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Four Design Principles as Basics
Proximity
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.

Alignment
Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Repetition
Repeated concepts improves consistency.

Contrast
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

PROXIMITY
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far12Proximity: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Name Card

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Eye movements scatter

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Name Card

Natural eye movement

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Name Card

OK

BetterRelated contents must be close.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization?

Eye movements scatter?

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization?

Eye movements scatter

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Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization①Eye movement②Eye movement

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Itemization

OK

BetterRelated contents must be close.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Numbers

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Numbers?

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Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Numbers

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Numbers

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Numbers

OK

BetterRelated contents must be close.
Unrelated contents must be far.
Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Title Slide

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Title Slide

Which one is important?

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Title Slide

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Title Slide

More important

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Proximity: Title SlideOK

BetterRelated contents must be close.
Unrelated contents must be far.
Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Four Design Principles as Basics
Proximity
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.

Alignment
Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Repetition
Repeated concepts improves consistency.

Contrast
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

ALIGNMENT

Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible

In short,

All the objects in a slide are placed with reasons.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Too manylines

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Soft

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card

Strong line

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Name Card
Koya Narumi
Associate Professor

Room 212, Bldg. 26th
Keio University045-566-1831

OK

BetterMuch better

Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (1)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (1)Intersecting lines
Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (1)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (1)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (1)OK

BetterInvisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (2)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (2)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (2)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (2)Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Alignment: Slides (2)OK

BetterInvisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

Please do not aimlessly
use center-aligned texts.
It automatically increases
the amount of invisible lines.
Consider left- / right- aligned
texts as default.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

Please do not aimlessly
use center-aligned texts.
It automatically increases
the amount of invisible lines.
Consider left- / right- aligned
texts as default.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

In short,

Try not using center-aligned texts.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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NOTE: Center-aligned texts are NOT Always Bad

Properly designed center-aligned texts are formal and powerful.

Conventional design procedure(Forward design)

2D

3D
The procedure enabled by Crane(Inverse design)

Salone del Mobile Milano 2023 at ISSEY MIYAKE / MILAN, © A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKEInkjet 4D Print
Self-folding Tessellated Origami Objects by Inkjet UV Printing

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Four Design Principles as Basics
Proximity
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.

Alignment
Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Repetition
Repeated concepts improves consistency.

Contrast
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

REPETITION
Repeated concepts improves consistency

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Repeated contents tell where you areDonʼt hesitate to use the same slide as a table of contents.

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Repeated contents tell where you areDonʼt hesitate to use the same slide as a table of contents.

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Repeated structure guarantees consistency

From the same structure, people can tell that slides deal with similar topics.

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Example template

Figures / tables / graphs / etc

Conclusions are here.
Conclusions are here.
HOGE et al., FUGA project, PIYO conference, 20XX.

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Title

Example template

Page number

Figures / tables / graphs / etc

Citation grid

Conclusions are here.
Conclusions are here.

Conclusions
Citation place

HOGE et al., FUGA project, PIYO conference, 20XX.

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Example template
Never change the height

Never change the height

Never change the height
Conclusions are here.
Conclusions are here.
HOGE et al., FUGA project, PIYO conference, 20XX.

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If You Do Not Strictly Repeat Structures

Figures / tables / graphs / etc

Conclusions are here.
Conclusions are here.
HOGE et al., FUGA project, PIYO conference, 20XX.

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If You Do Not Strictly Repeat Structures

Figures / tables / graphs / etc

Conclusions are here.
Conclusions are here.
HOGE et al., FUGA project, PIYO conference, 20XX.

Subtle movements arequite annoying.
keep pixel-perfect.

Even if the objects
change like this,keep pixel-perfect.

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Four Design Principles as Basics
Proximity
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.

Alignment
Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Repetition
Repeated concepts improves consistency.

Contrast
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

CONTRAST
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle

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Change drastically, or donʼt change• Change the font size drastically if you have some intention.
• Subtle change is imperceptible and looks inconsistent.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Donʼt Emphasize Everything“A curse of large fonts” taught by your advisors.
Designers use small fonts or white space as well to better contrast.

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Donʼt Emphasize Everything

Appropriate space“A curse of large fonts” taught by your advisors.
Designers use small fonts or white space as well to better contrast.

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Change the Structure to Start a New Topic

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Change the Structure to Start a New Topic

BasicAdvanced

守

展

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.

ANIMATION
Audience cannot help watching animation

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Animation is Powerful for Eye Motion Control

After all, we are mantes following animation.
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Circuit Eraser
ACM CHI EA 2015, Kickstarter

ConductAR
ACM UbiComp 2016

Liquid Pouch motors
IEEE ICRA 2017, IEEE RA-L 2020

PapilionArs Electronica 2017

A LIVE UN LIVE
六本木クロッシング 2018

Self-healing UI
ACM UIST 2019

Kirigami Haptic Swatches
ACM CHI 2020

Pop-up Print
ACM UIST 2020

poimo
ACM UIST 2020

Flower Jelly Printer
ACM CHI 2021

Crane
ACM TOCHI (CHI) 2023

Inkjet 4D Print
ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH) 2023

「作り方を作る」デジタルファブリケーション
M a k i n g “ h o w t o m a ke” b y D i g i t a l F a b r i c a t i o nLanguage = Japanese, duration = 5 min
IPSJ-ONE2024
https://youtu.be/Nhkpcyvwbw0?t=5106

Video Presentation is not Practical

But Two Tricks are Cost-eﬀective

Translucent transition

Opening animation

follow

BreakDonʼt care

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破

離

[1]

[1] https://tsutawarudesign.com/

Translucent Transition

Transition eﬀect helps audience follow the topic.
Transparency helps audience predict the story.

But Two Tricks are Cost-eﬀective

Translucent transition

Opening animation

Opening Animation

Audience lose their interests in the first 30 sec of the talk.
Opening animation communicates even before the presentation.

bioLogic: Natto Cells as Nanoactuators for Shape Changing Interfaces [CHI ’15]

Lining Yao, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Helene Steiner, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Hiroshi Ishii (MIT media Lab.)

Self-healing UI:

Mechanically and Electrically Self-healing Materials for Sensing and Actuation Interfaces
Koya Narumi*, Fang Qin*, Siyuan Liu, Huai-Yu Cheng, Jianzhe Gu, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Mohammad Islam, Lining Yao
Carnegie Mellon University & The University of Tokyo

Opening Animation

Audience lose their interests in the first 30 sec of the talk.
Opening animation communicates even before the presentation.

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.

BACKGROUNDS
E f f e c t i v e l y u s e t h e m e a n i n g o f b a c k g ro u n d s

In short,

I recommend novices using white backgrounds

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

Do not rely on meaningless and run-of-the-mill decoration.
If you hope to use it, choose a meaningful one

Do not rely on meaningless and run-of-the-mill decoration.
If you hope to use it, choose a meaningful one

Do not rely on meaningless and run-of-the-mill decoration.
If you hope to use it, choose a meaningful one

White Background

Pros
Many type of figures are available
Clean and easyConsBlack Background

Pros
Serious atmosphere.
High-contrast images.

Cons
Photos with colored backgrounds are typically not suitable.

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Reconfigurable Actuator“C” curve“S” curve

形状と動きを再構成可能なアクチュエータ

Short “C” curve

A LIVE UN LIVE"Everything flows” dress （「色即是空」の服）
Change its texture by inner temperature
Change its color by outer lightBlack BackgroundOK

Better, but time-consumingTextured Background

Pros
Easier to communicate the story.

Cons
Noisy and less useful for informative slides.

Meaningful backgrounds can eﬀectively work as a message slide.

There are many fabrication papers published in CHI every year,
but we are proud of our paper applied to the REAL design and industry.

There are many fabrication papers published in CHI every year,
but we are proud of our paper applied to the REAL design and industry.

Inkjet 4D Print
Self-folding Tessellated Origami Objects by Inkjet UV Printing

Inkjet 4D Print
Self-folding Tessellated Origami Objects by Inkjet UV Printing

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.

EYE MOTION
Grasp the instant eye motion of audienceIn short,

Be conscious of the natural eye motion of audience.

In which order do you gaze at them?

“Z” shape is known to be natural

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Donʼt Use “コ” shape

Figure was cited from Elephantech and intentionally modified worse from a beautiful version.

Donʼt Use “コ” shape

Figure was cited from Elephantech and intentionally modiﬁed worse.

Otherwise, animation could be useful

Figure was cited from Elephantech.

NOTE: Consider Proximity as Well

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NOTE: Consider Proximity as Well

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NOTE: Consider Proximity as Well

NOTE: Consider Proximity as Well

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No One Reads Too Many Items• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.
• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Magical Number 7 (or 3 or others)• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.
• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Magical Number 7 (or 3 or others)• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.
• Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.
• Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.
• Repeated concepts improves consistency.
• Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Group them in a small batch for better readability.

Magical Number 7 (or 3 or others)

Group them in a small batch for better readability.

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.

ASPECT RATIO
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows

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16:9 or 4:3 is the basic aspect ratio

Figure / Video / Table[1]

This slide is made with a 16:9 aspect ratio.

[1] HOGE et al., Reference title, Conference/journal title, 20XX.

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16:9 is a first choice,especially for a video.

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4:3 is also good,but mainly for an old projector.

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A 4:3 slide is like this> 34℃

Low-boiling-point liquid NOVEC 7000 evaporates at 34 ℃.
Evaporation makes the pouch inflate and change its shape.

Narumi et al., Liquid Pouch Motors, IEEE RA-L 2020.

Intentionally limiting the aspect ratio to 2.35:1 (cinema scope)

Limiting the aspect ratio could lead to readability• Itemizing ~3 sentences is sometimes too simple and too “white”• Limiting the aspect ratio could make audience focus on the message• Extremely speaking, making them feel comfortable is enoughLimiting the aspect ratio could lead to readability• Itemizing ~3 sentences is sometimes too simple and too “white”• Limiting the aspect ratio could make audience focus on the message• Extremely speaking, making them feel comfortable is enough

The title for the narrow ratio
is like this.

You can continue the longexplanation in this place. I
saw this presentation format
when I was a master course
student.
You may think this format isquite useless for academicpresentation. But it is usefulfor, e.g., self-introduction.

Koya Narumi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Keio University

2014 B.Eng. from UTokyo
2017 M.Eng from UTokyo
2020 Ph.D. from UTokyo
Topic: HCI, Digital Fabrication
Hobby: motorcycle riding
Like: wasting money
Goal: saving money

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.

OTHERS
Small topics related to s l ide des ign

Regard Audience as primary school children• Even genius professors understand ~30% of what you mean to say• Do NOT tell everything you know
• Always try to tell just one message in one slideDonʼt indent. Find another way• Indentation seems useful. But it could be harmful.
• Indentation makes too many invisible lines, which is hard to follow.
• Actually, we do not need to indent at all.
• If you think you need indentation, first reduce the amount of messages.

Tradeoff: creativity vs workload
Designing beautiful slides is NOT always the answer
Donʼt waste time just for lab meetings
Perhaps slides are not required (i.e., use Google Docs or Notion instead)149

Conclusion

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Lets study three presentation methods

Week 3: Slides

Week5: Figures

Week6: Videos

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Four Design Principles as Basics
Proximity
Related contents must be close. Unrelated contents must be far.

Alignment
Invisible lines should be as clear and few as possible.

Repetition
Repeated concepts improves consistency.

Contrast
Meaningful contrasts are strong rather than subtle.

Concepts are cited from “The Non-Designerʼs Design Book”

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Four Ideas as Advances
Animation
Audience cannot help watching animation.

Backgrounds
Effectively use the meaning of backgrounds.

Eye Motion
Grasp the instant eye motion of audience.

Aspect Ratio
We can actually select any aspect ratio as curiosity allows.