How to create a better research poster in less time (#betterposter Generation 2).
Channel: Mike Morrison, PhD
Date: 2020-07-13

TEMPLATES HERE: https://osf.io/6ua4k/

The traditional approach to research posters is ineffective. Watch this video to learn how to create new, evidence-based poster designs that get you more visitors and transmit your ideas to more people at the conference.

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Walls of text are ineffective:
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/febs.13383@10.1111/(ISSN)1742-4658.EditorsChoice
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hir.12015
https://www.medthink.com/pdfs/predictive-analytics-for-effective-poster-design.pdf

Prove-performance motivation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal_orientation#Prove_performance

Openness to experience and tolerance:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223891.2013.806328

Information foraging theory:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/223904.223911

Limited capacity:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1428-6_603
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895717703900835

Minimize cognitive load:
https://medium.com/design-signals/cognitive-psychology-in-ux-minimising-the-cognitive-load-d97ad8e3115b

Information scent:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/365024.365325

Interaction cost:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/interaction-cost-definition/

High Interaction Cost + Low Information Scent + Time pressure = Negative attitude
http://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2015.1029391


Conversational language is clearer than formal language:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/plain-language-experts/
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/legibility-readability-comprehension/
http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/18713

Elaboration and memory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaborative_encoding

Affective working memory:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691619837597

Retrieval cue:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1032

Creating mental pictures reduces cognitive load (study used in example poster):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563208002197

If you want to attempt that “data art” poster, check out Stephanie Evergreen on how to level-up your dataviz game:
https://stephanieevergreen.com/

UseIt.com is the ultimate resource on UX research, and it’s all easy to read and Open Access:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/#popular