Prepare·Project·Present
Using Technology to Encourage Effective Presentations

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Bullet Points Suck, but we can fix that

For people in many organizations, presentations are a way of life. From business meeting rooms to university lecture halls and even to elementary school classrooms, oral presentations are becoming more and more prevalent each day.

The leading presentation software tool today is Microsoft Powerpoint, a member of a larger category of tools called Slideware, which aid in the easy creation of presentation slides. Though these software tools are easy to use, a study completed as part of this research found that many people today are unhappy by slide-driven presentations.

This project aims to discover why people are unhappy with modern software-based presentations, and looks forward, in order to create new software that encourage positive presentation practices throughout the presentation planning process.

Please have a look around this site, or for more information, please contact Josh Evnin.

Prepare·Project·Present is the Master's Degree Capstone Project of Josh Evnin. Project advisor is Erik Stolterman. All work available under a Creative Commons Sampling License.