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Preparing Your Poster
1. Poster display
- Design your poster to fit within the allotted space
- Use as much of the allotted space as possible
See section 8 for details about this year’s conference poster dimensions
2. The challenge is to get people to stop at your poster so you can engage them in a conversation about your work
- Viewers are not inclined to do much reading
- Presume you have 3 seconds to grab their attention and 30 seconds to relay your message
- Use
- few words
- several pictures and graphs
- a reasonable number of colors to keep the tone professional
3. Suggested sections for an Intervention study:
- Abstract
- Purpose
- Methods
- Participants, Setting, Equipment
- Dependent Variable(s)
- Procedures
- Experimental Design
- Results
- Conclusions (including Clinical Significance)
- See the Presentation Proposal Guidelines for the suggested sections for other types of presentations
4. Lettering
- First glances occur at 2 meters (6 feet) or more
- Minimum sizes:
- Title - 4 cm (1.5 inches), 140 point font
- Authors, institution, major headings - 2.5 cm (1 inch), 96 point font
- Minor headings and labels - 1.25 cm (0.5 inch), 48 point font
- Narratives - at least 1 cm (3/8 inch), 36 point font
- Limit the number of font types
- Be consistent in the use of font types in your figures and illustrations
5. Poster content
- SHOW equipment with photographs
(Get a signed, written release if a subject is identifiable in a photo)
- Include a STEPWISE list of procedures
- Present results in GRAPHIC form
6. Creating the poster
- You may use –
- Print-specifications in PowerPoint to produce any poster dimensions
- Other desktop software to produce a unified poster
- Desktop publishing or graphics program to layout poster components - Templates from a website such as: www.postersession.com
- Attachment - venues may require different mounting methods such as:
- Adhesive Velcro fasteners
- T-pins
- Tacks
- Wax or roll-on adhesive
- Rubber cement, or
- Dry mount materials
See section 8 for details about this year’s conference method
7. Keys to creating a successful poster
- Use attention grabbing design and colors, but
- Keep the design simple (usually most effective)
- Avoid so much ornamentation that your poster becomes hard to understand
- Neatness counts, so keep your design and execution well-tailored
- Make getting the essence of your study as easy for the viewer as possible
- Organize your information in a pattern that prioritizes its importance and suggests an order for reading the parts (see suggested layout as noted in section 8)
- Provide a one-page handout that includes your contact information
8. Poster information for the 20th Annual IADMS Meeting, Birmingham, UK, October 2010:
- Poster display is 1.0 meter (3.3 feet/39 inches) tall by 1.5 meters (4.9 feet/59 inches/1.5 meters) wide – [What is known as "Landscape" format – see sample #2 in Poster Presentations Layouts (PDF)]
- Prepare your poster to be attached using push pins which will be provided at the conference site
- If you require additional information about your poster presentations, please email the Conference Director at ConferenceDirector@iadms.org
Thank you!
IADMS Annual Meeting Program Committee
Rev. 23 April 2010
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