This book offers the first comprehensive guide to poster presentation at
academic, scientific and professional conferences. Each chapter explores
different factors that impact upon how posters function, and how they
fit within today's conference practices, as well as provides guidance on
how to address compilation and presentation issues with the poster
medium. Drawing from fields of education, psychology, advertising and
other areas, the book offers examples of how theories may be applied to
practice in terms of both traditional paper and electronic poster
formats. Importantly, the book offers a critical examination of how
academic and scientific posters are able to achieve their potential for
knowledge dissemination, networking and knowledge transfer.
The many new and challenging findings provide an evidence-based approach
to help both novice and experienced presenters compile effective poster
presentations, and to see how poster presentations can best be used to
share knowledge, facilitate networking, and promote dialogue.
Additionally, educators, employers, and conference organizers may use
this book to re-evaluate how conferences meet the needs of today's
globally connected peer groups, and the benefit they provide at
individual and group levels.