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Composition Support of Presentation Slides Based on Transformation of Semantic Relationships into Layout Structure

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Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 25))

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This paper presents a framework of supporting composition of presentation slides in presentation preparation.Traditional presentation tools do not always make it easy for a presenter to compose a deck of presentation slides that convey clear message and consistent story. This is because the tools do not allow a presenter to externalize the semantic connectivity among the concepts and messages. For a persuasive presentation, a presenter should clarify what to speak and how to speak in the form of a scenario. Therefore, we address this problem based on the concept of a presentation scenario. Our idea is to develop an interface for externalizing a presentation scenario and then to generate presentation slides based on the scenario. In our framework, a presentation scenario is represented as the network structure in which the slide components such as texts and images are connected with semantic relationships. In composing a presentation scenario, the view of the whole presentation story helps a presenter to examine the consistency among his/her concepts and messages. Therefore, we introduce the technique of zooming to our interface for scenario composition. In composing a presentation slide, the slide should reflect the semantic relationships between slide components. To achieve this, we take an approach of transforming the semantic relationships between the slide components into diagrammatic representation. We define typical patterns of diagrammatic representation as layout templates. The layout templates consists of the precondition and the layout structure. The appropriate templates are selected and applied to each topic in the scenario by comparing their preconditions with the semantic relationships. We present the implementation of our prototype system and the examples of the slides generated by our system.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Toyohide Watanabe & Koichi Hanaue

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    George A. Tsihrintzis

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  3. University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, 5095, South Australia, Australia

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Watanabe, T., Hanaue, K. (2013). Composition Support of Presentation Slides Based on Transformation of Semantic Relationships into Layout Structure. In: Tsihrintzis, G., Virvou, M., Jain, L. (eds) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 25. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00375-7_10

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