Paper Info
Title
A novel physics-based interaction model for free document layout
Abstract
Marketing flyers, greeting cards, brochures and similar materials are expensive to produce, since these documents need to be personalized and typically require a graphic design professional to create. Either authoring tools are too complex to use or a predefined set of fixed templates is available, which can be restrictive and difficult to produce the desired results. Thus, simpler design tools are a compelling need for small businesses and consumers. This paper describes an interactive authoring method for creating free-form documents based on a force-directed approach, traditionally applied for graph layout problems. This is used for automatically distributing and manipulating images, text and decorative elements on a page, according to forces modeled after physical laws. Such approach can be used for enabling easy authoring of personalized brochures, photo albums, calendars, greeting cards and other free-form documents. A prototype has been developed for evaluation purposes, and is briefly described in this paper. Evaluation results are presented as well, showing that users enjoy the experience of designing a page by interacting with it, and that end results can be satisfactory.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2034691.2034725
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
graphic design,authoring tool,easy authoring,personalized brochure,force-directed approach,evaluation result,evaluation purpose,interactive authoring method,compelling need,free-form document,interaction model,free document layout,direct method
Computer science,Document layout,Graphic design,Human–computer interaction,Physical law,Multimedia,Database,Graph Layout
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Farias Bidart Piccoli150.84
Rodrigo Chamun240.48
Nicole Carrion Cogo340.48
João Batista S. De Oliveira4365.82
Isabel Harb Manssour53412.34