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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋Sep 25, 2024

Hyperlinks within a ppt are super easy.

Beware tho that if you don't redirect the flow regularly to a few main storylines, you will end up with 2^n slides for round n

Tofu Musubi Sep 25, 2024

@elduvelle
A lot depends on the size of audience (if it's large you might have to spend many minutes counting), and if that audience is patient enough to wait while you count. Group of ten, sure. More than that and it gets iffy. Of course, you could make a political or corporatist point by asking for the vote, then NOT counting and proceeding to whichever choice you wanted :-)

Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Sep 25, 2024

@elduvelle could be awesome but could also very easily get no engagement, or confuse everyone, irritate some people, and be way too distracting. Trial run something of the genre with a small group of peers perhaps? Seems too ambitious to commit to a talk of any formal nature before having tested the method.

MCDuncanLab Sep 25, 2024

A way to make it less complicated is to use ^S to navigate between slides. In presenter view, ^S opens
a menu visible only to the speaker that allows you to select a slide from the list of slides. (on a PC)

I think its a fun idea.

@MCDuncanLab cool tip, thanks!

MCDuncanLab Sep 25, 2024

Yeah, I wish more people knew it. I am quite sensitive to motion sickness and get ill when people frantically click through their slides to find the one they want during a Q & A.

Stumbled on it when trying to save something during a practice run.

Another good one is pressing the 'b' key, this gives you a black screen for like if you want to stand in front of the screen to address the audience.

jonny (nonvenomous)Sep 25, 2024

@elduvelle
It sounds like you'll be multiplying the number of slides you need to make but it would be SO COOL AND YOU SHOULD TRY IT

@jonny I might have exaggerated when I said 1 choice per slide.. Maybe it will be Max 3 choices for the whole presentation, and for sure like someone commented, try to merge back to the main thread whenever possible

@jonny Love the enthusiasm in any case ;)

Johannes Sep 25, 2024

@elduvelle
It’s a lovely idea. I could see it working for genuine dilemmas like research hypotheses or a choice on how to solve a problem. Sticking to a handful of forks limits the number of extra slides you need and reduces the risk that it becomes repetitive. If it suits the choices, then stylistic flavours (think colours and fonts) for the paths can help guide people.
Interactive presentations stand and fall with how the presenter interacts with a crowd - do you feel comfortable with that?

@johannes_lehmann I can make some jokes in a talk... That's mostly the extent of my interaction with an audience so far. Well that and answering questions. Oh and asking students to do stuff during lectures. Comfortable is maybe not the word but I don't mind it..
I get the point of people that doing this too much or for too long might be annoying or distracting though.

B Thuronyi Sep 25, 2024

@elduvelle I did this, sort of! But in a PDF. Worked well perhaps because it was limited to a specific part of the discussion... Would love to hear how it goes for a fuller talk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1704yO3E_NLeV0RJK_PjPrGv475jrvYHK/view?usp=drivesdk

BE-PACE CYOA_updated.pdf

Google Docs

@elduvelle omg this is the best idea! You absolutely must do it! If someone did this for a job talk I would give them the job immediately.

@elduvelle more seriously, talks ought to be about making an impression and transferring something from your brain into the audience's brain, and anything that increases engagement is good for that. Lots of other forms of interactivity you could try that has slightly less explosive growth properties too. Like - staying with the theme - you start the talk with a monster with 100 health. At the end of each side you have a question for the audience, and each right answer from the audience takes off 1 health. If the monster is defeated by the end of the talk they get a bonus picture of your cat doing something funny.

@elduvelle I realise I started that last post with "more seriously" and ended with a suggestion to turn it into an RPG with cat based rewards. 🤔

@neuralreckoning 😂😂😂

@elduvelle I so badly want to steal this idea. I won't. But I want to.

@neuralreckoning it's OK. You can take it and use it :) and then report back to let us know how it went!

Nate Gaylinn Sep 26, 2024

@elduvelle Does it complement the message you want to convey to your audience?

@ngaylinn hmmm, in a way yes, the talk is about decision-making (but in space), that's an interesting point though, maybe I can make this even more relevant 🤔

Nate Gaylinn Sep 26, 2024

@elduvelle Decision making in space? Not sure what that means, but it's tantalizing :)

Makes me wonder... could you lay out your presentation spatially, so that the questions literally lead the audience "in different directions"? Perhaps they might navigate to "places" where they anticipate reward?

Or maybe I'm just over-complicating your already complicated presentation idea.

@ngaylinn This is the kind of task that involve spatial decision-making: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle_neuro/111412275682476314

Yes... I like your idea!

El Duvelle Neuro (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I will be presenting this poster on #HippocampalReplay tomorrow (Wed 15th Nov) at #SFN23 ! I'm also uploading the poster as an image here, and it's on the SFN website: https://cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/10892/presentation/33535 you can ask questions in the chat there (I'll check it regularly as long as the poster is up, but probably not tomorrow). Little summary below: ### Our goal was to investigate if replay of hippocampal #PlaceCells was indeed reflecting immediate #SpatialPlanning. The existing literature is a little unclear: some studies find 'planning replay' and some do not. Most of the time, planning is not dissociated from reward consumption in these studies as they can generally be simplified to an alternation between two rewarded locations. In our case, we **separate the location of planning from the location of reward** and focus on replay happening at the planning time. ### At the location of planning, we find that: 1) there is actually **almost no replay at the time of planning** 2) the rare **'start replay' events do NOT over-represent the future trajectory**, or even the goal 3) the rare 'start replay' events do not differ for successful vs unsuccessful planning. ### At the goal location, we find that: 4) **Many replays occur at the goal, even *before* the reward delivery!** 5) 'goal replays' strongly over-represent the goal (either before or after reward delivery) 6) 'goal replays' do not over-represent the current trajectory compared to the alternative trajectory, or even the optimal path if the less-optimal path was taken 7) **'goal replays' were strongly affected by errors** and were quasi-absent during error trials (choosing an unrewarded end box) In conclusion: ### Reward (received or expected), but not planning, drives hippocampal replay! Let me know if you have any questions after looking at the poster :D

Neuromatch Social

Nadege Roche-Labarbe Sep 26, 2024

@elduvelle I've seen a colleague present his work that way and it was fantastic ! Go for it

Redish Lab Sep 26, 2024

I think this would be very tough to pull off, but I would have GREAT RESPECT for someone who did it.

I think it might be easier to work by sections rather than individual slides, but making it individual slides would be wonderful.

I do have to say, my favorite talks I've ever given have been the ones that I just showed up and said "what do you want to talk about?" and then just winged it for an hour (no slides, just chalk/white-board). In practice, I've never had the guts to do that in a formal talk, but I've actually done it quite a lot as a visitor in a class, when I've come to university X to give a formal talk and then my colleague asks me to talk to their class while I'm in town.

PS. You can absolutely have hyperlinks in #PowerPoint. The easiest way is to use sections and then "zoom to section", which can actually go to a section and return. I use this a lot in talks where I am not sure of the timing so I can skip sections if I need to. (I used it recently in a neuroeconomics talk where the first half of the talk laid out ideas and the second half were concrete examples. I didn't know how many of the examples I would get to and I made a game-time decision about which to show. Never had the guts to do this slide by slide though.)