EAGER: Identifying Graphic Design Principles for Reports and Presentations

EAGER：确定报告和演示文稿的平面设计原则

• 批准号: 1252819
• 负责人: Maneesh Agrawala
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Identifying; Graphic; Design; Principles; EAGER; Identifying; Graphic; Design; Principles

Reports and presentations are frequently used to share information. In business, science, education, law, and government, such documents are ubiquitous. When they are well-designed reports and presentations combine text with charts, tables and diagrams to visually highlight important findings. Good designers carefully choose colors, fonts, layout and composition to clarify and emphasize key ideas. Yet, creating an effective graphic design is challenging; most people who need to produce reports and presentations do not have the relevant training in art and design. Even with the proper training, creating effective designs can be extremely time-consuming. The result is that all too often reports and presentations are poorly designed. The goal of this exploratory research is to develop new tools for improving the graphic design of reports and presentations to highlight the desired information content. The initial work centers on the problem of identifying the principles of effective visual communication and graphic design for generating high-quality reports and diagrams. The challenge is to identify the most significant dimensions of visual design (e.g. spatial layout, fonts, colors, etc.) based on a large corpus of reports and presentations. A combination of crowdsourcing, image analysis and machine learning techniques will be used to determine the visual properties that characterize good graphic designs. The expected result will lead to better understanding of how graphic design contributes to the clarity and usability of a report or presentation. This work will produce an explicit set of principles for creating effective graphic design and web-based materials for teaching these principles to improve design literacy in society at large. The project provides research experience to students and design principles will also be presented to high school and college students. The project Web site (http://vis.berkeley.edu/projects/graphicDesignPrinciples ) is used to disseminate results, including software; a corpus of reports and presentations from web-based sources; papers and technical reports; and educational materials.

报告和演示经常用于共享信息。在商业，科学，教育，法律和政府中，此类文件无处不在。当它们是精心设计的报告和演示文稿时，将文本与图表，表格和图表结合在一起，以在视觉上突出重要发现。优秀的设计师仔细选择颜色，字体，布局和组成，以澄清和强调关键思想。但是，创建有效的图形设计是具有挑战性的。大多数需要制作报告和演示文稿的人没有艺术和设计方面的相关培训。即使经过适当的培训，创建有效的设计也可能非常耗时。结果是，所有报告和演示文稿的设计频率都很高。这项探索性研究的目的是开发新的工具来改进报告和演示文稿的图形设计，以突出所需的信息内容。最初的工作集中在确定有效的视觉交流和图形设计原理的问题上，以生成高质量的报告和图表。挑战是根据大量的报告和演示文稿确定视觉设计（例如空间布局，字体，颜色等）的最重要维度。众包，图像分析和机器学习技术的结合将用于确定表征良好图形设计的视觉属性。预期的结果将更好地理解图形设计如何促进报告或演示文稿的可用性和可用性。这项工作将产生一套明确的原则，用于创建有效的图形设计和基于网络的材料，以教授这些原理，以提高整个社会的设计素养。该项目为学生提供研究经验，设计原则也将介绍给高中和大学生。项目网站（http://vis.berkeley.edu/projects/graphicdesignprinciples）用于传播结果，包括软件；来自基于Web的资源的报告和演示；论文和技术报告；和教育材料。