Overview

Writing your code and your report is a very technical process. A big part of discussing research is trying to make it accessible to a general audience so that more people can benefit from your work. For this part of the project, you and your group will make a presentation explaining the high-level points of your project to a general audience. You should assume the audience of your presentation is not familiar with the details of your project report or code.

Details

You and your group will complete the following components:

  1. Make a video presentation for your project (one per group, made by all group members)

    Submit a 3-minute video presenting a slide deck (or other tool) highlighting the project’s big ideas. Your presentation should convey the following details:

    • Title and authors
    • Motivation
    • Research questions
    • Methods
    • Results, visualizations, and key takeaways
    • Future work, or future directions for this project

    There are a few expectations of your video:

    • Video presentations should clearly convey the information listed above.
    • The details of your presentation/artifact should be the most important parts of your project without requiring all the detail of your code or report. It should be understandable to someone who has not read your report yet.
    • If you are working in a group, all group members must present some meaningful aspect of the project during the video.
    • Your video is submitted on some online service like Youtube, Google Drive, or Dropbox. You don’t need to make the videos public, but make sure it is accessible to anyone with the link.

    Here are some additional guidelines:

    • Your video length should not exceed 3 minutes (like a lightning talk). This is a hard limit. Part of the challenge of creating a presentation is selecting what you prioritize, so you should only pick the most important part of your project to present to fit within the time limit!
    • Video transcripts and/or subtitles are not required, but they are appreciated and encouraged for accessibility.
    Recording Tips

    Zoom is the easiest way to record the video with screenshare and team members. Since this is such a short video, don’t bother editing and just re-take the video. This might take a 5 or more takes—think of each take as practice for a live presentation. If team members are not able to meet synchronously, you can also edit-together shorts from each team member.

    If you are working alone, there are other screen recording tools such CamStudio (Windows only) and Quicktime, but Zoom also works for solo projects as well!

    Your video links are due on Sunday 8/17 at 11:59 pm via a Google form. As with other parts of the project, late work is not accepted. Since we will be watching these videos during class, it is imperative that you submit on time.

  2. Watch other groups’ videos (individually)

    You will also be responsible for an additional task of watching other groups’ video presentations. You will be assigned 2-3 videos to watch and provide feedback to. Details for which videos you will be watching and how to provide feedback will be given once all video submissions have been made. This will be submitted alongside your Peer Feedback.

Submission

You will need to submit the following:

  • Submitting your video via Google Form by 11:59pm, 8/17. You may find this form at here, or by clicking the button at the bottom of this page. Only one member per group needs to fill out the form on behalf of their group.
  • Watching the videos of some other groups that did the video option and providing feedback on their video (link available after all videos have been submitted). This will be due the same time as the next part of the project (Peer Feedback).

Submit Project Videos