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AutoBrief
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Head: Steven F Roth

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Visualization and Intelligent Interfaces Group

For more information, see this project's homepage.

AutoBrief is an experimental system that automatically creates interactive presentations in coordinated text and information graphics. The current prototype is implemented in the domain of transportation scheduling to assist human transportation analysts using an incremental scheduling system (DITOPS). AutoBrief acts as an intelligent assistant providing high-level briefings about the DITOPS schedules. The briefings summmarize the schedules, analyze possible problems in them, and suggest ways to address the problems.

Navigational links in the presentation enable the analyst to request more detailed information. Also, implemented in the VISAGE environment, AutoBrief supports an information-centric approach. For example, the analyst can drag highlighted text or elements of a graphic from AutoBrief to other parts of the environment, e.g., to control DITOPS, to populate a user-created graphic for data exploration, or to create a personalized briefing.

The primary focus of the project is a domain-independent architecture for multimedia generation that employs elements of communicative planning, media allocation and coordination, and generation of both natural language and information graphics.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Carenini Giuseppe -
• Nancy Green - Systems Scientist, HCII
• [Home] Stefan Kerpedjiev - Project Scientist
• Joseph Mattis - Project Manager
• Vibhu Mittal - Adjunct Research Computer Scientist, LTI (Adjunct)
• Johanna Moore -
• Steven F Roth - Associate Research Professor

• Generating Explanatory Captions for Information Graphics

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Mapping Communicative Goals into Conceptual Tasks to Generate Graphics in Discourse
  S. Kerpedjiev and S.F. Roth
  Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '00), January, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [82 KB] copyrighted

• Tailoring Evaluative Arguments to User's Preferences
  G. Carenini and J. Moore
  Proceedings of the 7-th International Conference on User Modeling (UM-99), 1999.
  Download: pdf [60 KB], ps.gz [18 KB] copyrighted

• Saying It In Graphics: from Intentions to Visualizations
  S. Kerpedjiev, G. Carenini, N. Green, J. Moore, and S.F. Roth
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '98), October, 1998, pp. 97 - 101. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [141 KB] copyrighted

• Multimedia Explanations in IDEA Decision Support Systems
  G. Carenini and J. Moore
  Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive and Mixed-Initiative Decision Theoretic Systems, 1998.
  Download: pdf [67 KB], ps.gz [38 KB] copyrighted

• Media-independent Communicative Actions in Integrated Text and Graphics Generation
  N. Green, S. Kerpedjiev, S.F. Roth, G. Carenini, and J. Moore
  Working Notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, 1997.

• Dynamic Generation of Follow up Question Menus: Facilitating Interactive Natural Language Dialogues
  V. Mittal and J. Moore
  Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1995.
  Download: pdf [60 KB], ps.gz [56 KB] copyrighted

• Generating Explanatory Captions for Information Graphics
  V. Mittal, S.F. Roth, J. Moore, J. Mattis, and G. Carenini
  Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '95), 1995.
  Download: pdf [98 KB], ps.gz [93 KB] copyrighted

• Generating Patient Specific Interactive Explanations
  G. Carenini, V. Mittal, and J. Moore
  Proceedings of 18th Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC '94), 1994.
  Download: pdf [71 KB], ps.gz [70 KB] copyrighted