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Information about posters (COMP489 and BITT489) in 2009.

See also: http://www.elvis.ac.nz/Main/MakingPosters, but remember ECS are arranging the printing (via http://www.pivotal.biz/) so you don't need to worry about those aspects.

The discussion that Alex Potanin led is available: http://www.elvis.ac.nz/twikipub/Main/MakingPosters/Posters_2009.pptx

SUBMISSION

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Draft Due Date: Monday 7th September. Submit this via the submission system - you can then over-write it if necessary in the light of comments or further work you may do on it.
  • Due Date in submissions system: Monday 14th September
  • Display Date: Thursday 17th September

The assessment is solely driven by the presentation on the day, not the online versions. Accordingly, submitting the above items only matters if you want ECS to organise and pay for the printing of posters. If you want to print your own poster you are welcome to do this, but if so you are responsible for the costs, quality, and delivery of the poster.

CRITERIA to be used in assessing posters.

  • Draft pass/fail decider (see comment below).
  • Content and presentation on the day (involves both the poster itself and conversation about it with the markers).

The poster must have a title, student's name and supervisor's name. It should be A1 sized and readable from 2 meters away. It must also be printable: that is, you must provide an electronic copy (PDF) for the university to get the poster printed. You can use any desktop publishing software to produce this poster. The intended audience is senior under-graduate students and your peers (think: 3rd or 4th year).

Content

Note your poster doesn't need to actually have all these as separate sections, but a good poster is bound to involve all of them somehow:

Title
  • Subject title
  • Student Name
  • Supervisor Name

Problem Statement
  • A description of why this issue is a problem, i.e. What are you trying to do
  • A short abstract:
    1. What is the problem
    2. Why is this a problem
    3. How you approached and (if applicable!) solved it

Introduction
  • A short introduction and background of your work

Motivation
  • Use What Where Who Why How to help you come up with some answers. E.g.
  • Why is it a problem
  • Who can benefit from the solution
  • Look in to your own area of work and state the reasons it will help you
  • Why would you want this

Methodology
  • What methodology are you using for this project
  • Analysis - what this is
  • Are you performing any experiments
  • What kind of approach are you using
  • Is there a design tool

Results

  • Show results of your work i.e. What are the results of your experiments/research
  • Use graphs, tables, images, photos, code etc
  • The results can be future based

Related work

  • Recognition of related work is often important, but full citation of other work is not useful on a poster, since the viewer cannot go and check your references.

Conclusion and Future work

  • Give a brief conclusion with any future work that you may be intending to follow on to do.

Presentation

  • Your poster will be judged mainly on its content, but the cosmetic aspects do matter a little: the poster must be tidy, clean and concise. This is a "pass or fail" component of the assessment (if your poster is unreadable we fail you without reading the content and we won't allow you to display it). This should be easy to satisfy, merely by submitting a draft poster and responding positively to any feedback on it.
  • Will verbal communication to the examiner be part of the assessment and presentation? Absolutely yes. Remember, we used to have all project students give a talk at this point and in a sense the poster presentation is a response to these talks being infeasible with today's larger number of students.

Plagiarism

Note that the normal rules of plagiarism apply to posters as well as written work
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