Op-01 Academic Presenter: A New Storytelling Presentation Software for Academic Purposes

Abstract

From the dawn of civilization, people have used folktales and stories to share information and knowledge. After the invention of printing in the 15th century, technology provided helpful yet complicated utilities to exchange ideas. In the present computerized world, the art of storytelling is becoming more influential through the unprecedented multimedia capabilities of computers. In this article, we introduce a state-of-the-art presentation software by which academicians can present nonlinear topics efficiently and sharpen their storytelling skills. We show how the proposed software can improve the scientific presentation style. We conducted a survey to measure the attractiveness of proposed utility among other alternatives. Results show that academicians prefer the proposed platform to others.

miRCurator: A rapid curation and analysis tool for plant microRNA studies

“…After processing the whole dataset, miRCurator asks the user whether s/he is interested in a visual summary. The script generates a visual representation of results, which can be loaded with Academic Presenter [19] if the user approves. Due to its advantages and flexibility, Academic Presenter is being widely used for data visualization purposes [12,20].…”