The panel required candidates to make a "short impromptu presentation" on a subject of which they were given no advance warning, an ordeal they were unlikely to have encountered since applying for university.
The researcher may test out the presentation of an issue before subjecting it to rigorous scrutiny, for example by arranging focus group interviews with stakeholders.
On each presentation of a cue, subjects were asked to report the position of the (fractal) cue on the screen by left/right button-press.
Their presentation was a subject of intrigue among the public and in the media.
A general level presentation of the subject and a summary of the research outcomes will be presented.
After each presentation of a dot lattice, subjects chose the orientation they had perceived from a screen displaying 4 alternative orientations (0°, 90°, and the 2 diagonal orientations for the rectangular dot lattices; 0°, 60°, 120°, and the unlikely 90° orientation for the hexagonal dot lattices).
Organized by Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, it's as good a presentation of the subject as you'll find anywhere.
They formalised the presentation of the subject into a book that was new, refreshing and, above all, accessible to university engineering students.
In another bizarre aspect of Saudi life today, the ceremony honoring Naik included presentation of a similar award to a subject of the kingdom, Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Kaki, for research on the cultural history of the holy city of Medina.
Importantly, the video-assisted 4-SA was able to reduce the personnel requirements for each one two-week module by a full one man-day, while simultaneously providing an identical presentation of the subject matter.
