INFO 414 Human Information Behavior Presentation tips

Presenting Tips  Tell a story  Speak clearly in a strong voice  Face your audience, but don’t stand in one place the entire time  Use body language and make eye contact

Presentation tips  Engage your audience Gauge your audience’s reactions, communicate  Be prepared to cut pieces if time runs out  Practice  Relax

Materials  Organize your material Use a large font with lots of white space  Use graphics to liven up slides – don’t go overboard  Don’t use too many slides  Summarize complex content in a handout

Project presentation 20mins  Introduction Tell the story of your project in brief give an overview developing a user centered agent for information provision (product, resource, service)

Project presentation  Explain the process – theory and practice User centered design; the value added model and the information consolidation process Understanding the Information behavior of the user group is the key What do information professionals do in this process  study information behavior; select and evaluate information resources; gap analysis; analyze, restructure, repackage and design information

Project presentation  Description of the user group Definition Information needs Tasks Resources  Evaluation criteria General Subject specific User derived – link to the information behaviors of your group Focus on information Behaviors – tell the story

Project presentation  Gap analysis What is a gap analysis? Describe what you found when you conducted a gap analysis for your group Specifications for the agent for information provision that will fill the identified gap

Project presentation  Introducing the prototype Talk about it Describe it Justify everything – be very specific Link specific design considerations directly to your knowledge of the information behavior of your group and what you discovered when you conducted your gap analysis

Project presentation  Plans for field testing and implementation  Conclusion Sum up Make your case Sell the idea in your concluding statement You are the expert - an information professional – emphasize the theory, processes and practices