Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Task-analytic approach to the automated design of graphic presentations
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
On the knowledge underlying multimedia presentations
Intelligent multimedia interfaces
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
A classification of visual representations
Communications of the ACM
Top-down hierarchical planning of coherent visual discourse
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
The Inventor Mentor: Programming Object-Oriented 3d Graphics with Open Inventor, Release 2
The Inventor Mentor: Programming Object-Oriented 3d Graphics with Open Inventor, Release 2
A Methodology for Choosing Data Representations
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A Knowledge-Based System for Visualization Design
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Data characterization for automatically visualizing heterogeneous information
INFOVIS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '96)
Information presentation through default displays
Information presentation through default displays
Floating constraints in lexical choice
Computational Linguistics
Semiology of graphics
Automated visual discourse synthesis: coherence, versatility, and interactivity
CHI 98 Cconference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Automated Visual Presentation: From Heterogeneous Information to Coherent Visual Discourse
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on information visualization: the next frontier
A spreading activation approach to text illustration
Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Smart graphics
Automated generation of graphic sketches by example
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Most automated graphics generation systems employ either a constructive or a parametric graphics synthesis approach. Constructive graphics synthesis is a deductive approach that builds visual presentations from scratch by gluing together the most basic visual variables. Conversely, parametric graphics synthesis defines a set of parametrized visual models and interprets the information to be presented through instantiation of the selected model. To increase efficiency, we have combined parametric and constructive approaches in a system called IMPROVISE. In this paper, we focus on the parametric aspect of our approach. We present a comprehensive, general, and extensible formalism to represent a visual lexicon for use in automated graphics generation. A visual lexicon is a collection of parametrized primitive visual objects that serve as building blocks for constructing more complex visual presentations. We also illustrate how this representation can be effectively employed to aid the selection and instantiation of a visual lexical item in the graphics generation process. Examples are given from IMPROVISE to demonstrate the representation and use of this visual lexicon.