Present

“Present” (Beta) is where you prepare what a room sees, and the button that opens it. Press “Present” and a room screen opens in a new tab. dembrane starts reading the project’s conversations and shows the room short phrases from them. Those phrases are called popcorn.

“Present” is in the sidebar of every project. There is no separate “Popcorn” page: popcorn is the first outcome of a presentation.

A project has one presentation. It is made the first time someone who can edit the project opens “Present”.

Outcomes: what a presentation can show#

“Outcomes” are the parts of a presentation. There are four, and a presentation can hold nothing else.

A new presentation starts with “Popcorn” only. You switch the others on in the “Outcomes” tab of the editor.

On the room screen, popcorn is described as “moments of recognition from the conversations”. One phrase is at most 21 words or 140 characters. The screen carries this note:

popcorn is optimised for latency, not accuracy. popcorns in “quotes” are the room’s words, word for word; the rest paraphrase what was said.

So only a phrase in quotation marks is word for word.

A tension shows two sides that answer one question in opposite directions, with a line “To resolve:”. “Tensions” and “Stakeholders” come from the same reads as popcorn.

Start presenting#

A read is one pass of popcorn over the project’s conversations. “Live” means dembrane reads on its own, at an interval.

More about “Ready by”:

• It takes a time of day and means the next time the clock shows it: today, or tomorrow when that time has already passed.
• The menu says “Starts at {time}, 15 minutes early”, or “Starts now” when less than 15 minutes remain.
• The status line shows “Popcorn ready by {time}” and “starts {time}”.
• When the booked read is in, everyone who can open the project gets the Inbox notification “Your results are ready to review”: “Take a few minutes to look through them before you present.”

While you are live:

• dembrane reads every 2 minutes. A read gathers every conversation and works on the ones that changed since the last read.
• The status line shows “Live until {time}”.
• Live ends at that time, when you press “Stop live”, or after three failed reads in a row.

When a conversation finishes, one read is booked 60 seconds later. This also happens when you are not live. The status then shows “Read after {name} finished”.

There is no minimum number of conversations or words.

Prepare the presentation#

The page has three parts: the “Audience preview”, the “Presentation editor” and “Review results”. In the preview, “Not on the room screen yet” marks what the room has not seen.

The editor has a “Presentation title” and six tabs.

The “made with dembrane” mark stays on the screen unless the workspace is on the Changemaker plan or higher. Then you can switch it off.

Languages#

The screen and the results work in eight languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Czech.

• A new presentation has “Follow project language” ticked.
• Untick it to choose a “Screen language” (“The words around the results: tabs, buttons and explanations.”) and a language for “Results”: “Original language” or “Translate to {name}”.
• Results show in the language people spoke. A translation covers “every popcorn, quote, tension and stakeholder for this presentation; the originals are kept.”
• “Popcorn also in” adds up to three more languages: “Each popcorn pops once per language: the original first, then these in random order.”
• Translation happens during a read. Choosing a new language starts a read that only translates. Progress shows as “Translating: {n} of {total} into {language}”.

Review results#

“Review results” lists the findings in the presentation: “Change the wording, read the evidence, or keep a finding out of this presentation. Shared results stay available in Analysis.”

For each finding you can:

• press “Edit” to change the wording;
• press “Hide from this presentation”, and later “Show again”. Hiding asks “Why not in this presentation?”;
• open “History / details”;
• rate it “Good finding” or “Not a good finding” and “Leave feedback”.

“Hide from this presentation” affects this presentation only. An edit, or “Withdraw from the analysis”, changes the finding for the whole project. See Analysis.

“Use latest results” appears when the analysis has newer results than the presentation shows. “Open in Analysis” opens the Analysis page.

Showing your changes to the room#

• With nobody watching, changes show at once: “Changes show on the room screen as you make them.”
• While someone may be watching, changes wait. The page says “The room screen is open, so changes wait until you show them.”, “You’re live, so changes wait until you show them.” or “The public page is on, so changes wait until you show them.” The status line counts “# changes not shown yet”. Press “Show them”.
• The page only notices a room screen that was opened in the same browser. It does not notice a screen on another computer. Being live, or having “Public page” on, makes changes wait in every case.
• New results reach an open screen on their own. Nobody has to reload it.

What the audience sees#

1. The opening pages you switched on: “Introduction”, “Data policy” and “Take part”.
2. The button “Start popcorn →” on the last opening page. It starts the popcorn slides, with a countdown.
3. A waiting stage until the first phrase arrives. The screen says where things are, for example “waiting for the first conversation”, “reading the conversations…” or “the first popcorn is taking longer than usual”.
4. The outcomes you chose, as tabs: “Popcorn”, “Tensions”, “Map” and “Stakeholders”. A tab without results says “The results are being prepared.”

Also on the screen:

• The page about the data is titled “Here’s what happens to your data, step by step” and has three steps: scan, talk and understand. Its words follow the project’s anonymisation setting and legal basis, not your typing.
• Controls for play and pause, previous and next slide, fullscreen, and a light or dark screen.
• The map, with the views “Cluster map” and “Argument tree”. It can show a fact-check result.

The audience never gets:

• transcripts;
• a finding you hid from the presentation or withdrew from the analysis;
• the edit history of a finding, or fact-check buttons;
• links from a quote back into the workspace;
• a language control of its own.

On the waiting stage, a signed-in host who can edit the project also sees “Analyse now”. It starts one read. The public page never shows it.

The room screen and the public page#

With “Public page” on, “Share” offers a QR code, “Copy link”, “Open link”, “Download QR code”, “Copy embed code” and “Download event printouts”.

The public link works only while the switch is on. Switching it off and on again gives a new link. The old link stays closed and shows “This presentation is not available.” and “Its link may have been switched off. Ask the host.”

Who can do what#

Someone who cannot edit sees the preview and the “Present” button only. If no presentation exists yet, they read “The host hasn’t prepared a presentation yet.”

See roles & permissions and tiers & billing.

Related#

• Map: the full argument map, with fact-checks.
• Analysis: every finding, its evidence and its history.
• Canvases: a live page built by the assistant, as an experiment.
• The live monitor: watch the recordings while a session runs.
• Reports: a written article with its own public page.
• Present and Map for hosts: the walkthrough.