That means researchers often spend time with a poster that turns out to be not all that significant for them. You're just skimming desperately," says Morrison, "and you're going to miss a lot as you walk by." Maybe people stop and engage with one or two posters, Morrison says, but it generally takes time to even figure out what the poster is about. But there are so many posters that we just keep moving. It's impossible to take in unless you stop in front of a poster to read it. Scientists often stand beside their posters, hoping their work will catch the eye of other experts milling around the room. Posters get tacked up on rows of boards that fill ballrooms and convention centers. Major professional conferences invariably feature sessions that are devoted entirely to research posters. In the world of science and medicine, posters are a huge deal. Almost everyone has created a poster like this at some point - often in childhood, for a school assignment or a science fair. Get some poster-making materials and then slap on a title, the experimental methods and the results.
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"We are about to walk into a room full of 100 scientific posters, where researchers are trying to display their findings on a big poster board," says Morrison, a doctoral student in psychology at Michigan State University. But we're about to enter a world of conformity that hasn't changed in decades - maybe even a century. He's wearing a dark suit and has short hair. Mike Morrison hardly looks like a revolutionary. Michigan State University doctoral student Mike Morrison has a redesign for scientific posters to spell out their main point in big, easy-to-read letters.
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