Digital posters for interactive cellular media and bioengineering education

• Authors: Mythreye Venkatesan, Emory University; Ahmet F Coskun, Emory University
• Journal Title: Communications Biology
• Volume: Volume 2
• Publisher: Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) | 2019-12-06
• Type of Work: Article | Final Publisher PDF
• Publisher DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0702-1
• Subjects: Engineering, Biomedical
• Keywords: bioengineering education; interactive cellular media

Abstract

Posters are indispensable in sharing research reports in scientific meetings and conferences. Classically, large format, high-quality, and expensive printed papers have been preferred for posters. Paper posters have covered introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections under a research theme either for an individual, or a research team, or an academic center. Concise, visual, and visionary media have been highlighted in paper posters to deliver a communicable message to the academic and industrial community1–4. While the professionals have considerably benefitted from conventional poster presentations, there is an important need to revisit the concepts for posters due to their increasing costs associated with the rapid evolution of research progress and to their inefficacy to incorporate complex datasets such as movies, high dimensional visuals, and two/three dimensional (2D/3D) interactive media.