TABLE OF CONTENTS Poster sessions, pioneered in Europe, made their first appearance at a major U.S. meeting in Minneapolis earlier this month at the Biochemistry/Biophysics 1974 Meeting.
THOMAS H. MAUGH II, Poster Sessions: A New Look at Scientific Meetings (June 1974)
Visualizing a poster in its entirety at the planning stage is a must.
JOHN D. WOOLSEY, Combating Poster Fatigue (1989)
Calvin: Want to help me make a poster?
Hobbes: Sounds good. What's our winning poster going to say?
Calvin: That's where you come in.
CALVIN, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (1994)
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Anonymous
Poster sessions are an increasingly important part of scientific conferences. In this chapter [19] I offer some advice on the preparation and presentation of posters, something in which many of us are rather inexperienced.
[19]This chapter is based on [129].
A poster is very different from a paper or a talk, and so different techniques need to be used in its preparation. In particular, a poster is not'a conference paper, and simply pinning a paper to a poster board usually makes a very poor poster. A poster board is typically 4 feet high and 6 feet wide, but the reverse orientation (tall and thin) is also seen. It is advisable to check beforehand on the size of the boards that will be available to you. A poster itself is a visual presentation comprising whatever the contributor...
