 So, the purpose of today's talk will be basically on various usage of what visual should be used and how can you, what happened? I am sorry actually I, some problem in reading this. I am sorry I did not get enough time to spend on this. What basically wrong with this? Some point points are too bad, anything else? Points are? Not very clear. Not very clear, okay, anything else? What is the scariest part of this slide right now? Color, okay, sentences are too big. You cannot even see what is the third sentence, okay. But I am not able to get one very important feedback out of it. What is the most scariest part of this slide right now? Colors, yeah we covered colors already. Doesn't it font, yeah okay font size, doesn't it font size? The script type is not suitable for this, right. Doesn't it scare you that this is the second slide of 130th slide more to come? In a similar way, I got scared, okay. Just kidding actually, starting a fresh way. We are here to talk about visual communication. And what you saw is actually a parody of what could be a well communicated slide. So we will talk about visual communication. And that's why I kept visual in a separate color and font. Thanks to Kintaro Tayama, who is from Microsoft Research. And I happened to attend his presentation during a summer school which I attended in Bangalore. And this presentation is based on his talk there plus some additional references from other places. Okay, so any talk for that matter, whatever you give, has a goal. You start off with it, whether it be a seminar, it can be your APS or it can be your MTech presentation, or even a conference paper. So what you want is that the audience should not only understand what you are telling, but they should also remember and take away something, what message you are trying to convey. So that message is so very important to be conveyed in a format that they remember and take it back. So whenever I, just now an example of Kintaro Tayama, the presentation was so good that I carried it with me all the time. And that's how I use it whenever I get a chance. So whenever we talk about presentation, the first thing people relate to is that it has to be impressive. Now in the process what I am going to explain to you, impressed comes actually at the last point of the process. Because impressions will come only when you have a good execution at the back. And how will you execute well, only if you plan well. So analogy I am drawing, being a filmmaker myself, you have to excuse me because I will draw analogies mostly from the background of this. On the left you see a sketch and a drawing by Satyajit Ray for the characters of the film and the kind of detailing he has put in terms of how the look and feel of the character would be is not only from the drawing but he has also made notes about what is it. But it came to execution stage, what the shooting of the film. He went ahead and just did the fine touches of checking the makeup right and all that. And that's how you get classes like Gharay by Ray and that's how we have a director like Satyajit Ray who is acclaimed worldwide for his direction. The point I am saying is that for every presentation if there is a proper plan and a well executed plan will result in an impressive presentation. So another analogy, think of any film you have seen. I am not talking about films like maybe the violent ones but a typical entertaining family film will mostly have this as an outlay. Anybody disagrees with this outlay? You take any rom-com whatever you feel like and you enjoyed that. But if you go to the core of that thought, what actually they wanted to do was this. They wanted to set up a particular story in whatever it happens in Punjab or it happens in Delhi or whatever. But they start with a conflict. They have a false climax where typically there is an interval and then you have another rising action. Another false climax because then they have to show the last frame of they lived happily together. So they just come to that point and then they say that it happened. If I just map that with your headings of the presentation, typically it will fall into place. So it will start with the introduction. It will have a problem or observation. You just start the motivation behind why are you giving this presentation. You establish what is the problem. You will cite some related works like you are going to do the literature review now. And I think first is the red line. You will propose a solution. You will say that this is how it should work if this is the problem. And you will also show how that solution has worked showing your results or the proof or whatever you have done in your research, what you are presenting at. And whatever is left over you will say this is future work and we will take it up in the next presentation or in the next paper or whatever. So in short what happens is typical outline will resemble a good story actually. And that is how you will be able to captivate people by what you wanted to say. Now if you have that as your target that you have to come to a point where you need to get a story. And why is story important? Story is important because everybody loves story. Whatever age group, whatever format, whatever the audience, everybody will love that story. And if you have to have that particular story then this is the process we are going to follow. And for the next two lectures, including this it will be three lectures, we are going to devote for each of this step in the process. How we will go from planning stage to execution stage and finally on the interest stage that how you can actually modify the thing. So when you talk about presentation unfortunately I start with something called planning. It looks very boring but let me assure you without proper planning you cannot execute your presentation. And without proper execution you cannot impress people. So whatever topics you are expecting in visual communication, presentation skills will actually come in the last topic of impress. So we will start with something called plan, we will go ahead with something called execute. While executing it is just converting your plan in the form of a presentation. And right now let me remind you this is not about points, this is not about colors, this is not about effects, this is not about transitions, all that. This is just about putting your presentation in a proper order, in a structure. Then you have impress where you talk about color scheme, typography, animated visual effects for transitions or something. And we will also discuss why they are required in particular cases and why they are actually not required in most of the cases. Appeal is something slightly abstract term but it is more to do with your perception of whatever is being presented. For example the first slide which I put up most of the people started giggling and looking around to be gone crazy like why this slide and all that. So that is actually the appeal which was generated because of that sort of a slide which was not appealing at all. And I have put practice as the bottom line of everything because however good you do all this stuff which is written on the top, if you do not practice your presentation then it is kind of guaranteed to bomb because you just cannot be maybe spontaneous enough to execute all the detailing what you have been trying to put into your presentation. So I remember Professor Patak narrating his experiences when he started teaching. So the first thing he bought was a small recorder. Audio recorder those times were the cassette player and every time he had a lecture in the next day to put a cassette in that and really completely read out or talk about that lecture in a loud voice in front of a mirror and record it and hear it couple of times before he actually gave the presentation. Now that is what practice is and if you do not do that you are bound to get beaten up in the lecture actually. So we are going to focus on this today and I will share with you some of the techniques what can be used for planning. Let me put a disclaimer that these are not the only techniques but these are the some of the techniques we are going to practice today and see how we can plan our presentation today. So one of the techniques what I am going to talk about is called brainstorm. So how many people have actually participated in such things like there are group discussions I know about but have you actually done a formal brainstorming session with about a topic sometime. Hi. Ok. We have to analyze what comes up with the brainstorming that is there is not of data. For that I use mind map and since I thought this is a session for the department of CSU so many interesting tools available to actually create a mind map online and share it with people. It is a very exciting tool so we will go into the depth of that today. But let us first start with I am told that the groups are already formed every row becomes a group. So if you are a group even into your group was the initial idea but no need to spend time on that. You can just simply write the group present today not for your absent members who will just take the advantage of being in your group. Ok so people who are present today will get a sheet each which will have one topic written on that. The topic will be it is a very generic topic nothing political about it and nothing official about it it is just a topic. It is just for our assignment purpose that we are taking this topic. What you have to do is follow the brainstorming activity after you get the paper. So you have got the white paper with a title on it. We are distributing a couple of rough sheets like these. The two pages are the same on each row either for rough one or you write them. The actual submission will be on the white page on which the topic is written. That is the topic of your discussion. The first thing that the group will do is that the page is distributed one page per row that is your topic. You will write on the reverse side of that page the whole numbers of the people who are present today. Those who are present ones are good. The group may be three people, six people, five people. Everybody got one. This is how you have to start off. So discuss amongst your team members and just start with whatever comes to your mind. It can be words, concepts, ideas about that topic. Keep writing them on the rough papers right now. First write down on those rough papers. And the final run back that you arrive at should be drawn on that white sheet. But before that please ensure that you write the whole numbers of all the people in your group on the reverse of that white paper. That is the paper. Only those whole numbers which are present please. Come to your mind and keep writing on the rough paper right. We are not writing on the white paper which has the topic name right. Just go ahead and write. I will come towards each group and try to ask you whatever you had thought of. If you are drawing mind back ask those amongst you who have some prior idea to mind back. But when you do that you are actually working alone. The objective of this space is brainstorming. You are not supposed to do anything alone, anything. Even if you have an idea and you want to write it down you can share it with your neighbour. At least tell the neighbour what that idea is and then write it down. The whole idea of brainstorming is making each other aware of one's idea. And it is a vital aspect. Since most of us work alone we do not recognize how important it is. For example in the last room I can clearly see that the marginal people cannot even see each other. They can't carry it. So you should use this thick pair here. Don't be a neighbour. Don't be a neighbour about your ideas. Don't be a neighbour about your ideas. Then you are done with your point and then pull out and cross it together. Okay, I saw that couple of groups within this row have been discussing. Just pass on the papers from one end of the row to the other end of the row. And ask them to cut and add or edit whatever you have written. Basically try to ask questions about every sentence written there. Why you have written this, what is the motivation behind writing this, that type of thing. And if you agree, keep it otherwise just start deleting it. This was actually, I added this based on the last lectures by Professor Patak in which he said that for your topic go ahead and discuss with your team members over dinner or whatever. Which I am sure not many people did that or if they have done that that wonderful. But this is just a glimpse of how things can emerge out of it, right. In order to categorize them and analyze them, we need a structure. And the reason I am saying is that the structure has to be based on the requirement of the audience. Whom are you going to talk about this thing, right. So if you know that life at IITB as a top, who has that topic, life at IITB? Which group had this topic? Okay, one, two. Okay, so if your target audience was a college in VJTI, suppose. You have to go and give a talk at VJTI. What will be the orientation of this? If you have to give this to the freshies of IITB. You will change the presentation, right. Because of the audience being changed. Will you change or it will be the same? It will be the same or change, okay. So the structure is important and it depends a lot on who is going to read it or listen to you or look at it. So suppose I tell you that these are the alphabets to be remembered by the end of this lecture. It's very difficult for you, obviously. Probably some smart people may use the structure of saying, okay, there were five A's and three I's in that. And that's how we can remember. Even this is difficult. Some more smarter people will create some sentence out of it and spell it out later on. But even these sentences are very difficult. But if my audience is going to be a computer science student, I'll probably rearrange them in this. Which will be very interesting for you to remember all the time. Though you no need to have that arbitrary words on the top or the alphabets on the top. So if my audience is this, I would rather structure it in a format that they will understand the whole thing. Similarly, a mountain comic or an account or an OM or an iconic moment is very difficult to remember as opposed to communication. So that's easier to remember. So the structure is something which has to be considered when you start collecting these ideas and trying to present it. So the first thing you have to think of is audience. Whom are we going to talk about? So for your presentation, it is your group itself. So the rest of the people are your audience. So remember that while you are structuring your things. So now let us just get on to how will you express these brainstorming discussions what you had into a format which is interesting enough for people to understand the presentation even without standing here and presenting. So one of that method is called mind map. And you can actually make it using various ways and people have there are enormous documents available about what is a band map and how you can do it. I'm not going to spend time on that because most of you can just go out and read it. But why I'm saying is that now when you have this particular idea. So whatever ideas are generated today for that particular topic, keeping in view that the audience is going to be your own class, start structuring it in a format of a mind map. And the way you have to do it is start with the central idea whatever is given to you in the center of the paper and just have various hub and folks to that. So it's a main hub is that life at IITB or software piracy or whatever the topic is. And just start talking about various aspects. You can use this rough outline of what was the problem statement if there is a problem statement. Like for example, I asked somebody who had land ban advantages and disadvantages. They said we don't have any advantages of land ban anyway. But since you've asked for it, we'll try to figure out if there are any advantages. So you can just go ahead and just create a mind map using this. Just to show example that this is a classic slide of guidelines how to create a mind map explained in detail text. What is it? But a lot of people have shown me and it's already registered that these guidelines presented in this format as much more legible than reading out those 12 points. So a mind map of mind map guidelines is much more readable than the guidelines itself which are written in text. So you can easily see that it starts from the center of what is the topic of this mind map. It's about mind map guidelines. And there are certain first level pointers like what is clarity? What is how do you start from center? What are the styles to be used? What are the keywords? How can you use the lines? Lines can be labeled by saying that observed by or something like that. So you can label the lines. You can use colors to denote different sections of the mind maps and other things. So the task for you is like this. These are some of the mind mapping tools. The first two are free tools which can be downloaded easily. ThinkBuzan is one of the most popular tools on the web. However, it is not free. It is limited usage is free but the rest of the thing is paid. But the top two tools are free and you can use them. I have been using them. So the assignment is as follows. The brains come over the topic within the group and you can continue whatever you have been doing. But then when you have that, you just create a mind map. You use any one of the free tools which I have already mentioned and we will post this slide on the Moodle so that you can get the URL. But just for people, it was X-Mind and FreeMind are the two tools. You can just write down that name. And then every mind map software will give you an option to export that as a JPEG. So this time underlining, send me a JPEG or upload a JPEG because last year when we conducted the similar assignment, most of the people gave me that original mind map file which was very difficult. I had to install all the software on my machine in order to open this. So that's very cumbersome and time consuming. So just export it as a JPEG and send it across. The activity will be actually ending on the 2nd of April because I believe you have bigger deadlines prior to that. So you will not be able to spend time on this. That's why it is deliberately kept at 2nd of April. Announcement is that on 1st of April, the class is not going to happen here. The class is going to be for the entire IIT students in the Convocation Hall. Therefore, we are not meeting on 1st of April. We'll meet on 3rd of April. So on 3rd of April, we'll be able to see mind maps of every group. That's one of the agenda items for the next thing. We'll have discussion on mind maps. And then from mind maps, we'll see how execution of presentation will happen. How, from a mind map or from the brainstorming what you have done, what are the pointers which can create a presentation? What should you extract from that mind map in order to make a presentation? So that will be the topic for the next session. So I would like to stop here and give you some time for questions if you have any. So first question is, I do not know whether each one of you has the email ID and contact detail of the number of a colleague group member. Somebody has written their whole numbers on that sheet, on the slide sheet. But nobody knows which are the groups. Even we do not know each other. So what we'll do is select those white pages back, scanning them. And not scanning. We'll put that title and the goal numbers on the model in the group list. We'll do that by the way in any way. Because I don't think you would have drawn any mind map on that page now. But you are expected to draw a mind map on a page and submit it. Which you will do using that phone later. But continue this session and use some time now, the last two minutes before you leave, to decide in a common place for the group of 3, 4, 5, 6 people to meet and spend another 10, 15 minutes together. This is a group activity. Preparing the mind map is a group activity. And therefore the group has to have a coordinate. So my request is that take that white paper, where you would have written the whole numbers on the return and put a star against one whole number who will be the coordinate. Only that star person will submit the JPEG. There is nothing to it. Here is a picture. How to represent abstract itself topics. Extraction of quantities and time information from a free flow index. So that you don't know what is written. And you have to identify whether there is any information pertaining to time. Which could be yesterday morning 5 o'clock or which could be in 1973 or whatever. So he sold 100 kilograms of rice or whatever. Large batches of what you call AK-47s were found. So all kinds of things. He claims that this is a very abstract topic. I claim that this is a very real life topic. Sir, I am also present that what is my question. How to represent the ideas that we learn as in my research. The ideas are very abstract. He believes that if the ideas are very mathematical because you are obviously going to do some, you are going to search the web right to get all the information. You will have large number of documents and you will have to decide on keywords for those documents. You will have to write these things. And you are not very sure how to present those ideas. Or how to write a mind map for that. So one suggestion is that the words that you use and the words that I use themselves could be the initial keyword that you want. It is very important for you to think more as if you are discussing with someone else. Ideally you should bear up with some kind of yours. Help that friend to think about his or her topic and get help on your journey. Thinking and brainstorming are very essential activities in planning. And we have the opportunity as human beings to always discuss with people but invariably what happens is in a preparation towards any assignment we are used to the dictar that you shall not discuss with anybody else. You are expected to do everything on your own. It is a very stupid tool. Because any assessment also must form part of learning. So this is an opportunity where you actually should discuss. In order to present, discuss with people. The point what you were talking to us. During that discussion itself we generated a lot of keywords around this topic. Correct. If they were noted down then immediately we will stop chanting them into various words. What are the problems? Any other questions? Yeah. There is something called concept map. So what is the difference between mind map and concept map? Something called concept map. Yeah okay. So concept map and mind map. What is the difference between the two? In that question? Yeah. Okay. Does anybody have answer to this? Or I will also put my 5 cent into that. Have you heard of this word concept map? Or mind map was more heard word for you? Or he had heard nothing. Nothing. Okay. So frankly, within concept map and mind map there is not much of a difference. You can define as such. At the definition level there might be fundamental difference into both. The concept map actually starts with, it is a very formal methodology for creating whatever flow you wanted to present. On the other side, mind map is slightly having a free flow and you are free to drag and you can add many things and you can have interconnections between the things. In concepts typically you cannot have two third hierarchy bullets joined to each other or things like that. So that is where you have to have a concept being explained exactly like in a textbook where you have a flow of things very formal way. So that is how people typically associate concept map and mind map. But yeah, they are mostly similar to each other. If you see two examples of both of them, you will probably not be able to figure out what is the concept map and which one is the mind map. Anything else? I will see you on third.