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Poster Preparation
General Comments about Posters
and Poster Sessions at this Conference
The Poster Sessions are a very important part of the From
Sound to Sense: Fifty+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication
Conference. One of the main purposes of the Conference is
to promote understanding of theories, techniques, and data
across the subdisciplines of speech communication. We therefore
arranged to have only one session at a time, so that participants
would not be divided up into specialty groups. Poster formats
allow for more papers to be presented in a session than do
oral formats. Another advantage of posters is that they often
promote more in-depth communication between the author and
the audience. All of the contributed papers at the Conference
are in the form of posters.
As you develop your poster, please do keep in mind that some
of your audience at the Conference may not be familiar with
the work in your area of specialization. Please try to pay
extra attention to explaining the theoretical assumptions,
relevant prior work, techniques and instrumentation, results,
and implications of your results in a manner that will be
understandable to a non-specialist.
Please remember that a poster is not simply a large-type
version of a written paper. Rather, a poster should be an
eye-catching, succinct presentation of the highlights of the
paper, and posters often make special use of graphic materials.
You are expected to stay at your poster during the session,
but your poster should be able to “stand-alone”
as well. While you are discussing your poster with an audience,
new viewers may come by who will have missed portions of your
oral explanation. Some of your audience will only have time
to quickly view the poster, while others will want to stay
to discuss it with you.
Technical Requirements and Suggestions
Required: The poster
dimensions should be 6.5 feet wide by 4 feet tall. We will
provide supplies to attach the poster material to the boards.
Your poster should include, at the top and in letters at least
1 inch tall, the title of your paper and the names of the
authors and their affiliations.
And Please Note: Viewers
should be able to easily read the text in your poster from
a distance of 8 feet. We recommend that you use a font size
of 30 point or higher. You should keep text to a minimum,
but do not make your poster so telegraphic that it needs you
to orally explain the text. In some cases, “bullet”
presentation may be fine, but in other cases short paragraphs
will be needed in order to provide the viewer with sufficient
information to understand your points. Figure and Table captions
are essential, as are axis labels for Graphs. Use of color
is often welcome in graphic material, but do keep in mind
that members of your audience may vary in their ability to
perceive color; your poster should not depend on color.
Handouts: Many authors
choose to make reduced-size versions of their posters available
for viewers to take home.
Written Paper Preparation
Download Word Template
You have the option to submit a written version of your paper
which will be included on the conference proceedings CD and
published on a web archive. If you choose to submit a paper
for publication, you must submit it as a Microsoft Word document
using this template.
The total length of contributed papers must not exceed 6 pages*.
The revised deadline for submission of contributed papers
is April 14, 2004. Papers
should be submitted as an attachment via email to the address
abstsp50@speech.mit.edu.
The Subject line of your email must include the last name
of the first author. If you do not have the capability to
submit your paper electronically, please contact us for alternate
instructions (speech50@speech.mit.edu).
*Please Note: If you
are an invited speaker in either the History or Current Work
sessions, please refer to correspondence from the Organizing
Committee regarding your paper page limits and submission
deadlines.
Call
for Papers (Deadline was January 30, 2004. This material
is archival)
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