User-Centric Semi-Automated Infographics Authoring and Recommendation
User-Centric Semi-Automated Infographics Authoring and Recommendation
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2021-08
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Anjul Tyagi;Jian Zhao;Pushkar Patel;Swasti Khurana;Klaus Mueller
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Anjul Tyagi;Jian Zhao;Pushkar Patel;Swasti Khurana;Klaus Mueller
设计信息图表对于非专家来说可能是一个繁琐的过程，即使对于专业设计师来说也是耗时的。基于文献和形成性研究，我们提出了一个灵活的框架，自动化和半自动化的信息图形设计。该框架捕获了信息图表中的主要设计组件，并将生成工作流程简化为三个步骤，允许用户独立控制和优化每个方面。基于该框架，我们还提出了一个交互式工具，\name{}，用于帮助新手设计师创建高质量的信息图表，从输入的markdown格式，通过提供不同的设计组件的信息图表的建议。同时，更有经验的设计师可以使用画布来部分控制自动生成过程，为工具提供自定义设计和布局想法。作为我们工作的一部分，我们还贡献了一个单独的视觉组（VG）和连接设计数据集（SVG），沿着一个1 k完整的信息图图像数据集，其中包含分割的VG。该数据集在使我们的框架创建的信息图设计多样化方面发挥着至关重要的作用。我们评估我们的方法与类似的工具，新手和专家设计师的用户研究，和一个案例研究的比较。结果证实，我们的框架和\name{}擅长创建定制的信息图表和探索各种各样的设计。
Designing infographics can be a tedious process for non-experts and time-consuming even for professional designers. Based on the literature and a formative study, we propose a flexible framework for automated and semi-automated infographics design. This framework captures the main design components in infographics and streamlines the generation workflow into three steps, allowing users to control and optimize each aspect independently. Based on the framework, we also propose an interactive tool, \name{}, for assisting novice designers with creating high-quality infographics from an input in a markdown format by offering recommendations of different design components of infographics. Simultaneously, more experienced designers can provide custom designs and layout ideas to the tool using a canvas to control the automated generation process partially. As part of our work, we also contribute an individual visual group (VG) and connection designs dataset (in SVG), along with a 1k complete infographic image dataset with segmented VGs. This dataset plays a crucial role in diversifying the infographic designs created by our framework. We evaluate our approach with a comparison against similar tools, a user study with novice and expert designers, and a case study. Results confirm that our framework and \name{} excel in creating customized infographics and exploring a large variety of designs.