Bahador Saket
Koji Yatani
ABSTRACT
Managing time while presenting is challenging, but mobile devices offer both convenience and flexibility in their ability to support the end-to-end process of setting, refining, and following presentation time targets. From an initial HCI-Q study of 20 presenters, we identified the need to set such targets per 'zone' of consecutive slides (rather than per slide or for the whole talk), as well as the need for feedback that accommodates two distinct attitudes to time management. These findings led to the design of TalkZones, a mobile application for timing support. When giving a 20-slide, 6m40s rehearsed but interrupted talk, 12 participants who used TalkZones registered a mean overrun of only 8s, compared with 1m49s for 12 participants who used a regular timer. We observed a similar 2% overrun in our final study of 8 speakers giving rehearsed 30-minute talks in 20 minutes. Overall, we show that TalkZones can encourage presenters to advance slides before it is too late to recover, even under the adverse timing conditions of short and shortened talks.
- Abela, A. (2008). Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action. Pfeiffer.Google Scholar
- Ayres, J. (1996). Speech preparation processes and speech apprehension. Communication Education, 45, 228--235.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Atkinson, C. (2005). Beyond bullet points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. Microsoft Press. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Bailey, B.P., Konstan, J.A., & Carlis, J.V. (2001). The effects of interruptions on task performance, annoyance, and anxiety in the user interface. INTERACT'01, 593--601.Google Scholar
- Brown, S.R. (1980). Political subjectivity: Applications of Q Methodology in political science. Yale University Press.Google Scholar
- Buehler, R., Griffin, D., & Ross, M. (1994). Exploring the 'planning fallacy': Why people underestimate their task completion times. Journal of personality and social psychology, 67(3), 366--381.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Dempsey, D.J. (2010). Present Your Way to the Top. McGraw Hill.Google Scholar
- Duarte, N. (2012). Harvard Business Review Guide to Persuasive Presentations. Harvard Business Review Press.Google Scholar
- Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2001). Design noir: The secret life of electronic objects. August Media.Google Scholar
- Edge, D. Savage, J. & Yatani, K. (2013). HyperSlides: dynamic presentation prototyping. CHI'13, 671--680. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 1Eisler, H. (1976). Experiments on subjective duration 1868--1975: A collection of power function exponents. Psychological Bulletin, 83(6), 1154--1171.Google ScholarCross Ref
- FlashQ. http://www.hackert.biz/flashq/home/Google Scholar
- Gillie, T., & Broadbent, D. (1989). What makes interruptions disruptive? A study of length, similarity, and complexity. Psychological Research, 50(4), 243--250.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1977). Intuitive prediction: Biases and corrective procedures. TIMS Studies in Management Science, 12, 313--327.Google Scholar
- Kreifeldt, J.G., & McCarthy, M.E. (1981). Interruption as a test of the user-computer interface. Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 87--91.Google Scholar
- Lichtschlag, L., Hess, T., Karrer, T. & Borchers, J. (2012). Fly: studying recall, macrostructure understanding, and user experience of canvas presentations. CHI'12, 1307--1310. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mamykina, L., Mynatt, E. & Terry, M.A. (2001). Time Aura: Interfaces for Pacing. CHI'01, 144--151. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Occhialini, V., van Essen, H. & Eggen, B. (2011). Design and Evaluation of an Ambient Display to Support Time Management during Meetings. INTERACT'11, 263--280. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Office Remote. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/officeremote/Google Scholar
- O'Leary, K., Wobbrock, J.O. & Riskin, E.A. (2013). Q-Methodology as a Research and Design Tool for HCI. CHI'13, 1941--1950. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 2Pecha Kucha 20x20. http://www.pechakucha.org/faqGoogle Scholar
- 2Pousman, Z. & Stasko, J. (2006). A taxonomy of ambient information systems: 4 patterns of design. AVI'06, 67--74. Google ScholarDigital Library
- PQMethod. http://www.lrz.de/~schmolck/qmethod/Google Scholar
- Prezi. http://prezi.comGoogle Scholar
- Spicer, R., Lin, Y. R., Kelliher, A., Sundaram, H. (2012). NextSlidePlease: Authoring and delivering agile multimedia presentations. TOMCCAP, 8(4). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tam, D., MacLean, K.E., McGrenere, J. & Kuchenbecker, K.J. (2013). The Design and Field Observation of a Haptic Notification System for Timing Awareness during Oral Presentations. CHI'13, 1689--1698. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Treisman, L. (1985). Preattentive processing in vision. Comp. Vision, Graphics, and Image Proc., 31(2), 156--177. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Trinh, H., Yatani, K. & Edge, D. (2014). PitchPerfect: Integrated Rehearsal Environment for Structured Presentation Preparation. CHI'14. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Warnock, D., McGee-Lennon, M.R., & Brewster, S. (2011). The impact of unwanted multimodal notifications. ICMI'11, 177--184. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Wisneski, C., Ishii, H., Dahley, A., Gorbet, N., Brave, S., Ullmer, B. & Yarin, P. (1998). Ambient Displays: Turning architectural space into an interface between people and digital information. CoBuild, Springer LNCS, 1370. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 3Zakay, D., & Block, R. A. (1997). Temporal cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 6, 12--16.Google ScholarCross Ref
Index Terms
- TalkZones: section-based time support for presentations
Recommendations
Professor Ernest Kuh's talk
ISPD '11: Proceedings of the 2011 international symposium on Physical designI very much appreciate the honor given to me at this conference and wish to thank the organizers for their kindness. According to the preliminary program the invited talks include placement, routing, clock distribution, etc by well-known authors. Their ...
Displaying mobile feedback during a presentation
MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and servicesSmartphone use in presentations is often seen as distracting to the audience and speaker. However, phones can encourage people participate more fully in what is going on around them and build stronger ties with their companions. In this paper, we ...
Information Provision Modules to Support Creation of Slides with Easily Understandable Presentation
Including visual information in slides is one of the important factors for enabling the audience to easily understand the content of a slide presentation. However, it's difficult for an inexperienced preparer to improve the presentation of slides ...
Comments