Demo Planning

• Audience:
  • Background
  • Level of presentation (high-level/technical/...)
  • What are their ``buttons'' (to be pushed, to be avoided)
  • Time limits (attention span)
  • How many? (over-the-shoulder demo, lecture, ...)
• Content
  • Focus/Objective: what are we trying to convey
  • Highlights: issues, accomplishments, future work
• Presentation style choices
  • Intent:
    • What can be expected in the near-term, or
    • Vision of what could be accomplished in the longer term
  • Highly interactive:
    • demonstrate only core capabilities that have been well debugged
  • Tightly scripted:
    • can show wider range of features
    • script steps around ragged edges and newly developed parts

DEMO PLANNING -- Scenario

• Scenario
  • Concern: minimize time required to explain the demo
    Leave enough time for the demo and explanation of the technology
  • Tradeoff: scenario that is familiar or not
    Potential Problems:
    • familiar scenario
      • audience focuses on discrepancies from reality % eg using great circle routes for ships, ignoring landmasses
      • audience engages in discussion of scenario
      • audience steps outside bounds of scenario
    • unfamiliar scenario
      • explanation time
      • making linkages to the audience's applications
  • Concern: the supporting technology should not steal the show
    • too flashy or high profile
    • a related interest of the audience