(David Akers, Frank Losasso, Jeff Klingner, Maneesh Agrawala, John Rick and Pat Hanrahan)
Hand-crafted illustrations are often more effective than photographs for conveying the shape and important features of an object. We describe an image compositing system and user interface that allow an artist to create technical illustrations from a set of photographs of an object taken from the same point of view under variable lighting conditions.
(Maneesh Agrawala, Doantam Phan, Julie Heiser, John Haymaker, Jeff Klingner, Pat Hanrahan and Barbara Tversky)
We present design principles for creating effective assembly instructions and a system that is based on these principles. The principles are drawn from our research which investigated a person's conceptual models of assembly and effective methods to visually communicate assembly information.
(Maneesh Agrawala and Chris Stolte)
Current computer-generated route maps tend to be difficult to use. We present a set of cartographic generalization techniques specifically designed to improve the usability of route maps. These techniques are based on cognitive psychology research studying the use of route maps and on an analysis of generalizations found in hand-drawn route maps.