MixT: Automatic generation of step-by-step mixed media tutorials

UIST'12 - Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-102

  Chi, Pei Yu ^a   Ahn, Sally ^a   Ren, Amanda ^a   Dontcheva, Mira ^b   Li, Wilmot ^b   Hartmann, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructions; Software tutorials; Video

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; IMAGE MANIPULATION; INSTRUCTIONS; SOFTWARE TUTORIALS; VIDEO; VIDEO COMPOSITING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84869029229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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