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Abstract

We propose a methodology for automatically realizing communicative goals in graphics. It features a task model that mediates the communicative intent and the selection of graphical techniques. The methodology supports the following functions: isolating assertions presentable in graphics; mapping such assertions into tasks for the potential reader, and selecting graphical techniques that support those tasks. We illustrate the methodology by redesigning a textual argument into a multimedia one with the same rhetorical and content structures but employing graphics to achieve some of the intentions.

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Center for Integrated Manfacturing Decision Systems

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Visualization and Intelligent Interfaces Group

Associated Project(s): AutoBrief

Text Reference

Stefan Kerpedjiev, Giuseppe Carenini, Nancy Green, Johanna Moore, and Steven F. Roth, "Saying It In Graphics: from Intentions to Visualizations," Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '98), October, 1998, pp. 97 - 101.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Kerpedjiev_1998_2853,
   author = "Stefan Kerpedjiev and Giuseppe Carenini and Nancy Green and Johanna Moore and Steven F Roth",
   title = "Saying It In Graphics: from Intentions to Visualizations",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '98)",
   pages = "97 - 101",
   month = "October",
   year = "1998",
}

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