PSI26 - 12>17 May 2024

• ALL SPEAKERS are asked to provide a USB drive with their talks and check them at the Preview Room @ Palais du Pharo (see Floor Plan) at least ½ day in advance.
• Talks can also be uploaded directly to the Google drive (link will be given later)
• ALL SPEAKERS MUST come to the Preview Room @ Palais du Pharo to preview their presentation exactly as will be shown in the oral session in the preview room. Opening hours are from @16:00 to @18:00 on the 12/05 ; and from @07:30 to @18:00 every day from Monday to Thursday, and from @07:30 to Noon on Friday
• Speakers will not be allowed to load presentations during a session, or to connect their own laptop, memory stick, etc.
• Presentations will only be displayed from the conference computer.
• Only material that corresponds to the abstract in the published program may be presented.
• Any author presenting at PSI26 must be a registered participant of the Conference and be present in Marseille.
• Files transferred to the session computers cannot be copied by anyone and will be deleted after the Conference.
• Speakers are asked to arrive 10 minutes before the session and introduce themself to the session chairs before the start of the session.
• There will be no rearrangement of papers within an oral session to accommodate absences or cancellations. The time assigned to an oral presentation within the oral session is fixed.

• All presentations must be in English.
• Presentations must be submitted in Microsoft Powerpoint PC(.pptx) but note that PDF file format is recommended as font substitution in Power Point can lead to unpredictable results.
• Presentations should be prepared in 16:9 format.
• If your presentation includes videos: they should preferably be in mp4 format or, as a second choice, in AVI or MPEG format. They must be inserted in your presentation… but note that movie clips may not run due to mismatch of video plug-ins.
• It is strongly recommended to insert only one video per slide and to run it in automatic mode.
• If your Powerpoint presentation contains files in other formats, they should be embedded.
• Apple computers will not be available. If you are working on a Mac, please ensure that the files are compatible with PCs.
• Review presentations: prepare your talk so that your presentation lasts 30 minutes with 10 minutes available for questions.
• Invited presentations: prepare your talk so that your presentation lasts 25 minutes with 5 minutes available for questions.
• Oral presentations: prepare your talk so that your presentation lasts 15 minutes with 5 minutes available for questions.

• Plan one slide per minute.
• Carefully budget your time. Allocate at least one minute to describe the problem clearly enough for the audience to appreciate the value of your contribution.
• Make sure the audience walks away understanding the five things any listener to a presentation really cares about:


• What is the problem? Why is it important?
• What has been done in the past about it?
• What is the presenter doing (or has done) about it?
• What additional value does the presenter’s approach provide?
• Where do we go from here?

• Select a Sans-serif fonts: Arial or Helvetica. Avoid Serif fonts such as Times New Roman: the Serif fonts are more difficult to read.
• Select font size to be visible over the whole room. We recommend font 24. Do not use fonts less than 18 points.
• Consider font embedding to ensure that characters display properly.
• Use larger fonts to indicate importance.
• Use different sizes and styles (e.g., bold) for impact. Avoid italicized fonts which are difficult to read.
• Avoid long sentences, Avoid abbreviations and acronyms. Limit punctuation marks.
• No more than six lines per slide, and no more than 6-8 words per line.
• Do not use all caps except for titles.

• Include only necessary information: Content should be self-evident.
• Keep the background consistent and subtle.
• Use one or two large images rather than several small images.
• Limit the tables to four rows/columns for readability.
• Charts: The number of curves should be four or less. Label axes, curves and captions clearly using readable letters, font 18 or larger.
• Limit the number of colors on a single screen.
• Keep the design clean and uncluttered. Leave empty space around the text and graphical images.
• Limit the number of graphical images on each slide.
• Avoid sound effects.
• Minimize animation.

• Each vertical poster board side measures H238,9cm x L93,3cm. Your poster should be in PORTRAIT orientation, must fit within these confines (A0 format recommended) and consist of materials that can be mounted easily with push pins (provided by PSI26 onsite).
• Each poster presentation is assigned to one side of the board.
• Poster boards will be numbered. The designated board number assigned to your poster presentation is indicated for each poster after the session number. Example : P2 – 001 : Poster Session number 2 and poster board 001.
• Your poster must correspond to the title and content of the submitted abstract.
• Authors are expected to be available next to their poster for attendees to interact.
• Please remove your poster at the end of your session so the next presenter can post theirs.
• PSI26 accepts no responsibility for posters or other materials that may be left behind, lost, stolen, or damaged.

Authors are asked to setup/dismantle their posters based on the following schedule:

• A concise and to-the-point title.
• Keep the background consistent and subtle.
• Organized to guide the observer through information in a logical order.
• Provides the motivation, objectives and approach of the research.
• Summarizes the key results and highlights the impact of the work.
• Proper use of colors, graphics, figures, text and white space.
• Moderate use of long text blocks.
• Proper text scaling for comfortable viewing from a distance of about 3 feet (~ 1 meter).
• Efficient use of graphics to convey complex information.

As a guide to meet the 6 journal page limit, an article should not exceed 5,500 word-equivalent including text, title, abstract, figure captions and references. The limit for 10-page invited papers is 9,000 word-equivalent, for 12-page review papers 11,000 word-equivalent. When figures, tables or equations are used, the equivalent number of words can be estimated using the following:

• One column wide (7.5 cm) figures/tables: 20 words per cm height.
• Two column wide (15 cm) figures/tables: 40 words per cm height.
• Equations: 20 words for each equation.