Slide Templates
Technical Report Templates
- Guide
- Latex Source
- Naming your report: yearmonthdayauthor_content.pdf and yearmonthdayauthor_content.zip (tex package). E.g. 20180426moriyama_iros.pdf or zip
- Use zip, instead of rar to compress your tex package.
- Use online editors like Overleaf is a highly recommended.
- Check your English with Grammarly.
A Primer on Making Slides
- Using the templates is highly recommended.
- Take care of fonts and font sizes.
- All pages shall have same fonts for a certain language.
- Title pages always have larger fonts than normal pages.
- Arrange your pictures to have good visual effect. Make the background of your pictures white to fit our templates.
- If you design CAD models:
- Use silhouette rendering: White background, No shadow, No real-time graphics, No shaded rendering.
- Use transparency and colored transparency to denote complicated design; Use solid color to denote key components (linkages, cables, etc.)
- Prepare your handouts as double-sided A4 pages, with 8 slides on each side.
- You cannot directly do that in Powerpoint. Instead, save your slides into a pdf file, and print as 4x2slides/side using Acrobat Reader.
A Primer on Writing Technical Reports and Academic Paper
- In case you are a complete beginner and confused about how to get started, refer to the following instructions: English version (Japanese translation, Chinese translation)
- A guide on good writing is here. The key point is spill the beans fast.
- My recommendations are as follows.
- Make a draft of paper organization (section names, arrangement of sections, etc.), and discuss with me a lot.
- Determine the key sentences of each paragraph.
- Determine the glue between paragraphs.
- Fill up the sentences.
- Make clear and unified figures.
- Software
- I use Microsoft Powerpoint to edit graphs, as well as unify fonts and legends. If you used the same software, share your *.pptx file with me.
- I suggest working on google doc first, and move it to latex later. The good point of google doc is collaborative editing. We may also focus on contents rather than latex symbols.
- When moving the contents to latex, I recommend using Overleaf to edit collaboratively.
- I use google scholar – my library – to manage references. You may copy the bibtex format of a paper directly from it.
- Some details
- Use Surname et al. [ID] to cite papers.
- Use bold black font to emphasize key words.
- Use Fig.No, Alg.No, Tbl.BigRomanNo to cite figures, algorithms, and tables.
- Use \label{} and \ref{} to refer to contents in your paper. Do not cite numbers directly.
- Name your labels using meaningful words. For example, use “figteaser” instead of “fig1”.
- Figures are recommended to have white background.
- Tenses
Videos
- EV screen recorder is recommended for recording your screen. The result is directly encoded with H.264 and saved as mp4.
- Use high-quality cameras (at least HD) and tripods in the lab to take real-world videos. Make sure the surrounding environment is tidied up.
General Discussions
- I recommend share interesting techs, systems, developments, as well as ask questions on Slack. wan-researchshare-eng is the English channel.
- You may find interesting news shared by me and many other robotic researchers from the SICE manipulation channel on Facebook. The channel is organized by Prof. Harada. Another candidate is the IEEE manipulation channel. The channel is organized by Maximo A. Roa. I use line/wechat for instance messaging. Drop by my office and scan my QR code if you would like to get connected in real time.
名刺テンプレート （Name card)
- 大学生協まで発注するか、下記のWORDファイルをダウンロードし、エーワンマルチカードの紙を使ってプリントしてください（F10A4-1タイプ）.
- You may pay Seikyo to make the cards for you, or you may download the following template and print it using name card printing sheet (A-one, F10A4-1 type).
- 表側（front, Japanese） 裏側（back, English）
