Integrating Planning and Task-Based Design for Multimedia Presentation

We claim that automatic multimedia presentation can be modeled by integrating two complementary approaches to automatic design: hierarchical planning to achieve communicative goals, and task-based graphic design. The interface between the two approaches is a domain and media independent layer of communicative goals and actions. A planning process decomposes domain-specific goals to domain-independent goals, which in turn are realized by media-specific techniques. One of these techniques is taskbased graphic design. We apply our approach to presenting information from large data sets using natural language and information graphics. Keywords Multimedia presentation, information seeking tasks, media allocation, information graphics, presentation planning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: IUI
• Authors: Stephan M. Kerpedjiev, Giuseppe Carenini, Steven F. Roth, Johanna D. Moore
• Keywords: Communicative Goals, Graphic Design, IUI 1997, Multimedia Presentation, Software Engineering