This book offers the first comprehensive guide to poster presentation at academic scientific
and professional conferences. Each chapter explores different factors that impact upon how
posters function and how they fit within today's conference practices as well as provides
guidance on how to address compilation and presentation issues with the poster medium. Drawing
from fields of education psychology advertising and other areas the book offers examples of
how theories may be applied to practice in terms of both traditional paper and electronic
poster formats. Importantly the book offers a critical examination of how academic and
scientific posters are able to achieve their potential for knowledge dissemination networking
and knowledge transfer. The many new and challenging findings provide an evidence-based
approach to help both novice and experienced presenters compile effective poster presentations
and to see how poster presentations can best be used to share knowledge facilitate networking
and promote dialogue. Additionally educators employers and conference organizers may use
this book to re-evaluate how conferences meet the needs of today's globally connected peer
groups and the benefit they provide at individual and group levels.
