CSE165W2016Paper

Research Paper Presentation

Each student must give a 10 minute presentation (+ 2 min. Q&A) on a full-length (6+ pages) research paper of their choice from the field of 3D user interfaces. The paper must have been published in the year 2013 or later.

Paper titles and presentation dates need to be entered into the wiki page on Ted by Sunday, January 17th at 23:59pm.

Your presentation needs to be done with a set of slides (Powerpoint, Google Docs, Keynote, etc). You should present off your own laptop if it has VGA or HDMI output, or you can send the instructor your Powerpoint or PDF slides in email (or via Dropbox etc) and use his laptop for the presentation.

Grading

You can get up to 100 points for your presentation.

Points are given for the following things:

• The timely selection of paper and presentation date. (10 points)
• The presenter's understanding of the article, as perceived by the audience. (20 points)
• Structure and completeness of presentation, quality of slides or other material used. (30 points)
• The performance: ability to convey material to audience, audience connection. (20 points)
• Timing: the presentation should take no more than 10 minutes (10 points).
• Q&A: answers to audience questions. (10 points)

Questions for Presentation and Q&A

Here are some questions to help guide your presentation:

• What did the author(s) study? What issue about this topic were the author(s) trying to better understand?
• Why do we care about this topic?
• What methods did the author(s) use? Why are these methods suited to better understand the problem at hand?
• What are the main conclusions from this work?

Here are some general questions for the Q&A section:

• What part of the work was confusing to you?
• What parts were well explained and what parts were poorly explained?
• What type of previous studies is this work building on?
• What is the next step after this work?
• Are there other implications of this work that the authors haven’t considered?

How to Find a Paper

Here is an incomplete list of qualifying conference proceedings. Note that in order to download the full PDF versions of the papers you will likely need to be logged in to UCSD's campus network.

• IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)
• IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI)
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST)
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• SIGGRAPH Asia

If you would like to present a paper from a different venue please contact the instructor.

Structuring Your Presentation

When you read through a few papers, you will quickly find that most follow this structure:

• Introduction, motivation, hypothesis.
• Related work done in the past by others, and how it relates to the paper at hand.
• Methodology.
• Results.
• Discussion of the results.
• Conclusions and future work.

Unless you have good reasons not to, your presentation should also follow this structure.

Note that you do not need to cover all the details of the paper. Just focus on the main concept and explain it on a level the class can understand.