Hi All: below is information for your oral presentations in 780 on Tuesday evening?. Time: 10 minutes per group, followed by 5 min. Q&A Basic Format: you?ll use PowerPoint slides to help us follow along (see instructions for sending PP slides to Dan below). In general, keep your PowerPoint slides concise and uncluttered. A good rule of thumb is no more than five bullets per slide. Rather than using complete sentences for text, use phrases and fragments. Use a sans-serif font; avoid distracting background colors and unnecessary graphic ornamentation. --State focus and motivation for project idea: What prior work has lead you to your project focus? What research questions are you hoping to answer (theoretical? technical? practical use??these are questions that Motorola engineers typically use to situate their research efforts?the ?Why? of your project). What kinds of audiences are you aiming at? --State as specifically as possible your project objectives and deliverables --State how your project group intends to implement the project and roles of project members. Be as technical as possible in stating implementation plans. Identify individual project roles and why these individuals have been assigned these tasks. The HOW of your project. --State any development you have already started, including research (papers Frank posted to the blog, others you may have discovered) --Show timeline for development for rest of semester. This is best shown as a graph in which the vertical axis shows tasks and the horizontal axis show duration in time (in weekly increments). Tasks rarely follow sequentially; it is more typical that several tasks go on at the same time. --Q&A PLEASE NOTE: In addition to your fellow students in the classroom Tuesday evening, Frank will have colleagues virtually present by videoconference, including the following Frank himself, a research anthropologist, a UI designer, a technical marketing person, and Frank?s lab manager. Written Proposals: format above also relates to the written oral proposals, which are group authored?one document per group?and are due on Friday, March 3 by noon at my office (14N-336). Leave three (3) copies of the written proposals. Written reports usually clock in around 10 pages, including figures. The online Mayfield guide for MIT students (certificates required) has useful information on style. Finally, at our last class Dan requested that you post your PowerPoint slides to him so he can make them available to the folks following along at Motorola the night of the presentations. Here is Dan's info on how to get him the files and how to name them: Email PP slides to Dan (drb@mit.edu) at least 24 hours in advance. Dan will put them in a zip file, and send them over to Frank. PLEASE NOTE: whoever is sending Dan the slides MUST incorporate their Athena username into the file name of the presentation -- something like this: drb_780_presentation.ppt -- that way all of the names will be unique. As Dan notes: "It would be pretty confusing to have 15 "document1.ppt" presentations...."