Investigation of the relationship between subjective evaluation of poster presentation materials focusing on the quantity of images

Abstract

The aim of this study is to enable researchers to produce attractive presentation materials and to show that such presentation materials may depend on the quantity of images. Therefore, we asked the conference attendees about the fastforward that they would like to go hear for a poster presentation and posters they thought were good. The results of the survey are analyzed in relation to the quantity of images in the presentation materials. As a result, the images of top selected poster group had more than 1.5 times amount than the other poster groups. Regarding the area of the images, the average value for the top selected poster group was that the image occupied more than 25% of the total poster areas, while the average value for the image area for the unselected poster group was 10%. These investigation results suggest that the quantity of images is important for creating good presentation materials.