Data characterization for intelligent graphics presentation

  • Authors:
  • Steven F. Roth;Joe Mattis

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1990

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

An automatic presentation system is an intelligent interface component which receives information from a user or application program and designs a combination of graphics and text that effectively conveys it. It is a facility that assumes the presentation responsibilities for other programs. An important research question has been how information should be specified or described by an application program for it to be presented by an automatic presenter. This paper proposes a taxonomy of information characteristics which would need to be provided to either human or computer designers for them to create presentations reflecting the individual needs of a diverse group of users. The proposed taxonomy of characteristics defines the representational goals for intelligent interfaces which reason about graphical displays.