Disassembling a Demo: Reducing Cognitive Load to Increase Engagement
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Crickets.... We've all been there. You spent hours upon hours preparing a demo for your colleagues/customers and you just aren't sure whether you got your point across.
Your slides were gorgeous, you knew your topic backwards and forwards but you could not pin down whether it made a difference to your audience or not. What happened?
In this session, we will explore and discuss the social paradigms and cognitive cues involved in successfully getting your point across. Discussion points include:
- Expectation Setting - Why are you demonstrating to your audience?
- Engaging your audience - Your audience is human (usually)
- Cognitive Load Theory and why it matters
- Social and cultural paradigms and why they matter
- Visual display of information and how it affects cognition