If you are unable to give your talk in person or signed up for only making a virtual presentation. , InSITE offers the option of making a virtual presentation. Your paper will be scheduled for presentation. At your paper's presentation time, we will "play" your presentation and, optionally, set up a question-and-answer session afterward.
What is a Virtual Presentation? You create a virtual presentation by creating a self-running slide show that includes a voice narration. Most people find PowerPoint to be a convenient software tool for creating their presentations, but you are welcome to use other tools, such as a Shockwave embedded within an HTML file.
PowerPoint includes tools for recording your voice for each slide and then advancing to the next slide at the end of each narration. If you are more technically inclined, you can create more advanced presentations using other tools, such as Producer for PowerPoint, a free tool offered by Microsoft.
Good Quality Recording. The less obvious aspect is that you need to record your voice using a good-quality microphone in a quiet setting. Ideally, have someone from your Audiovisual department set you up with a high-quality Lavaliere microphone. If you use slide animation, the result can be very interesting.
Scheduling. Your total presentation time should be about 10-12 minutes since listening to a computer talk is more tiring than listening to a person. We can schedule a "live" question and answer session to follow your presentation if you are willing to be at your computer (using Skype) or telephone following the presentation.
Japan Time. Hiroshima, Japan's Time Zone is UTC +9.
Time Zone Converter—Time Difference Calculator shows you how to convert time in Japan on the conference dates to your location’s time zone.
What to include (and what to leave out).
A common mistake is trying to review all your paper's research. You won't have time. Instead, give just three or four "pearls of wisdom."
One example of this is
1)why this research was needed,
2)what did it find, and
3) "so what," that is, tell the significance of the finding.
Since you cannot go over all the points of your paper in 10 minutes, give just enough detail in your brief talk to get the audience interested in following up with you after the conference. They all have access to your paper, and many will have read it before the conference.
We suggest that you start by showing a photo of yourself and narrating a welcome to the audience. This gives your talk a more personal touch.
Conclude your presentation with an invitation for delegates to contact you by email (and Skype). Please leave your email address on the screen long enough to convey to the audience that you really do want them to contact you.
How and why to get your presentation to us?
While we will endeavor to connect with you by Skype, as a backup get your presentation to us. Since presentation files can be large, upload your file to a web server and email a link to Organizer@informingscience.org. Do not email the presentation as an attachment.
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