{"id":579,"date":"2008-02-29T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/portfolio\/masters-thesis-slideware\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:44:39","slug":"masters-thesis-slideware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/portfolio\/masters-thesis-slideware","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s Thesis: Slideware"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>I carried out a year long research and design study about how people prepare for and carry out presentations.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5em\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Josh_Evnin_capstonePoster%20copy.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This project aimed 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.<\/p>\n<h6>What did I do?<\/h6>\n<p>For my Master&#8217;s Degree Thesis project I carried out a year-long study of slideware, and redesigned some of these ubiquitous User Interfaces to support the creation of creative, educational presentations.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Prepare. Project. Present. Website\" href=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/p3\">project&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I carried out a year long research and design study about how people prepare for and carry out presentations. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":541,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}