{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Visual Planning: A Practical Approach to Automated Presentation Design","authors":[{"name":"Michelle X. Zhou","slug":"michelle-x-zhou","given":"Michelle X.","family":"Zhou","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Based on a set of design principles, automated visu?l ~resentation systems promise to simplify an applicatiOn programmer's design tasks by automatically constructing appropriate visual explanations for diff~r~nt information. However, these automated pre~entatwn systems must be equipped with a powerful mference approach to suit practical applications. Here, we present a planning-based, practical inference approach that can design a series of connected visual presentations in interactive environments. Our emphasis here is on a set of important visual planning features and how they facilitate visual design. This s.et of fea~ures includes a knowledge-rich representatiOn of vtsual planning variables and constraints, a novel object-decomposition model that can be used with. action decomposition to simplify the visual synthe~ts process, and practical temporal and spatial reasonmg capabilities to facilitate coherent visual design and presentation. In addition, we have implemented our visual planning approach in a visual planner called PREVISE, as part of our automated presentation ~estbed system. A set of examples is also given to tl~ustrate the necessity and utility of our visual planmng approach.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/91","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0091.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/91.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/bibtex/91","volume":{"slug":"1999","title":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1999","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/","year":1999,"location":"Stockholm, Sweden","dates":"","editors":"Thomas Dean","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Knowledge-based Applications","track":"Knowledge-based Applications","number":91,"pages":{"first":634,"last":640},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}