We will take turns giving presentations on the readings. In this role, you are expected each time to work intensively to analyze and synthesize the ideas in the readings. Compare, contrast, and integrate. Be incisive.

The task is akin to authoring the prior work section of a research paper.

• Identify themes.
• Get into interaction and visualization techniques.
• Raise information presentation issues.
• Consider the role of information semantics. What are the underlying questions?
• Delve into the nitty gritty of evaluation methods.
• Assess key findings.
• Address challenging math.
  What do the equations mean? How do they work?
  Build an intuition.
• What are the strengths? The weaknesses?
• Contextualize: Who are the researchers? How does this relate to other research?
• To what extent, and in what contexts can the methods and findings be generalized? To what extent are they context-specific?
• Critique and recontextualize, as appropriate.

Raise critical questions. Incite discussion. Provoke thought.

Support your presentation with powerpoint/prezzi and tightly targeted video clips. Use our time well!