Skill-up support for slide composition through discussion

Abstract

In the presentation, it is important to compose the presentation slides whose story is appropriate for audiences' interests. For this purpose, the skill for composing an understandable story is necessary. In order to improve the slide composing skill, we focus on the slide refinement discussion in the research group. Participants discuss the points which make the presentation story of original slides unclear. For progressing the discussion effectively, each participant needs to consider the inappropriate story points of original slides as the amendment in advance. In addition, it is important for participants to grasp the differences between original slides and the amendment in consideration of the presentation story. In this paper, we propose two tools for slide refinement discussion: slide amendment making tool which makes it easy for the participant to compose the amendment; and discussion support tool to visually display the differences of the compositions as discussion points. The experimental result showed that our tools were useful in the process of refining presentation slides. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.