KSU Computer Science Department
First Annual Poster Conference / Open House
For those responding to the
Call For Posters for the
First Annual KSU CS Poster Conference / Open House,
this document provides information on how to prepare your poster.
For information on how to print your poster, see
How to Print a Poster.
Some important pieces of information:
- The CS Department will pay for ONE printing of your poster,
at the "official" poster size of 36"x24" (landscape).
- The CS Department will pay to print your poster ONCE. Print a
small version locally and proof it carefully before you submit it
to be printed poster size. If you find errors once it's printed
poster size, it's up to you to arrange and pay for a reprint if
you want one.
- If you want a bigger poster you have to arrange (and pay for)
that yourself; with the large volume of posters we'll be
processing we can't handle special requests.
- Lab, faculty, and both graduate and undergraduate student
posters can be in color. If you're an undergraduate student
preparing a poster, please coordinate with your club advisor
or class instructor.
- For the bulk of your text -- textual paragraphs or bulleted
lists -- use at least a 24 point, if not 36 point, font. You may
be tempted to use a smaller font to squeeze in more information,
but if no one can read your poster, will it matter? Also use only
white backgrounds. Colored backgrounds use extensive amounts of ink
and substantially increase the cost of printing the poster.
- Plan to turn in your file for printing before Noon on Thursday 5 April or Friday 6 April,
or before 11:00am on Monday 9 April. It will take TWO DAYS to get your poster back.
- You are strongly encouraged to try for one of
the early dates; if too many people wait until the last date we may not
get all the posters printed in time.
What does a poster look like?
In preparation for the Poster Conference, two TEST posters have been
made and printed. Neither poster contains "final" text, and this
test was done only in black and white and on normal paper.
As described above, the final posters will be in color, and will be
printed on heavier glossy paper.
However, you can look at these two test posters and see the size of
the posters, how the mounting will work, and compare the legibility of
various fonts and types faces.
The two test posters are posted as follows:
- DRAFT of lab overview poster by Robert Walker, outside Michael
Rothstein's office (MSB 268)
- DRAFT of poster by Wittaya Chantamas, outside Johnnie Baker's
office (MSB 260).
Are There Other Resources Online?
Prof. Jonathan Maletic required a poster presentation in his Spring
2005 CS 6/73903 Software Visualization class. The web page describing
his class poster requirements is online at:
http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/cs63903/poster.html
A good general article on posters and conference poster sessions is
online at:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
Ignore the part about free beer and wine; we won't have that! ;)
A good article on poster layout and content (with Do's and Don'ts)
is online at:
http://www.biophysics.org/education/block.pdf
A good article on research posters, from the ACM Crossroads Student
Magazine, is online at:
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/posters.html
Another article on preparing effective posters is:
http://faculty.washington.edu/scporter/INQUAposters.html
Finally, a good overview and list of links on academic poster displays
is online at:
http://student.dcu.ie/~mcmahon4/posteradvice.html
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