JPH0264871A - Presentation supporting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently generate presentation materials easy to see and easy to understand objectively by evaluating document data based on the evaluating rule of the easiness to see and the easiness to understand of the presentation materials provided on a system, and outputting the evaluated result. CONSTITUTION:An evaluating rule dictionary 5 in the system is provided with the evaluating rule to be the objective standard of the easiness to see and the easiness to understand of the presentation materials, and an analyzing and evaluating part 4 checks the easiness to see and the easiness to understand of the generated presentation materials according to this evaluating rule, and outputs its evaluated result. The materials are corrected properly in the course of its generation according to this evaluated result. Thus, the materials easy to see and easy to understand objectively can be generated efficiently.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a presentation support system that supports the creation of presentation materials used in various presentations such as research presentations and lectures.

(Prior Art) In recent years, many presentation materials have been created using word processors and personal computers. Here, these are referred to as presentation support systems. In conventional presentation support systems, the main focus has been placed solely on the ease of creating materials, and the ease of viewing and understanding of the created materials has been evaluated by the materials creators.

However, how many slides or OHP (overhead projector) sheets should be made for a given presentation time, how many characters, lines, colors, etc. should be made per sheet, etc. are not evaluated by humans. It differs depending on the situation, and it is difficult to judge correctly while creating presentation materials. As a result, self-centered presentation materials are created that ignore the audience, and when slides and OHP sheets are created, the fonts are too small or the number of colors is too large and they become out of focus. Often, you will notice some problems such as: In such cases, there is a problem in that it takes a lot of time and cost to modify the presentation materials.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) As described above, in conventional presentation support systems, the ease of viewing and understanding of the created presentation materials was evaluated solely by the material creator through trial and error. There were problems in that easy-to-read and easy-to-understand materials were not created according to the execution status, and easy-to-see and easy-to-understand materials were not created efficiently.

The present invention was made to solve these problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a presentation support system that supports efficient creation of presentation materials that are easy to see and understand.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problem) The first invention provides an input means for inputting presentation materials consisting of information such as characters, figures, tables, images, etc. an evaluation rule dictionary storing evaluation rules that provide evaluation criteria for understandability; an analysis evaluation means for analyzing and evaluating presentation materials inputted through the input section based on the evaluation rules; The present invention is characterized by comprising an output means for outputting the evaluation results of the means.

A second invention includes a means for inputting information regarding the execution status of the presentation as the input means, and the analysis evaluation means appropriately adjusts the evaluation rule according to the information regarding the execution status inputted via the input means. It is characterized in that it can be used after modification.

(Operation) According to the first invention, the system is provided with an evaluation rule that serves as an objective standard for the ease of viewing and understanding of the presentation materials, and the evaluation rules that serve as objective standards for the ease of viewing and understanding of the created presentation materials are provided. The analysis and evaluation section checks based on this evaluation rule and outputs the evaluation result. Therefore, by appropriately correcting the material during its creation based on the evaluation results, it is possible to efficiently create materials that are objectively easy to see and understand.

Further, according to the second invention, since information regarding the execution status of the presentation is used as one of the parameters for determining the presentation evaluation rule, it is possible to create materials most suitable for the presentation environment and e-people.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a busentation support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The input unit 1 is an input means consisting of, for example, a keyboard, and is used to input document data that is the basis of presentation materials, commands for editing the data, and information such as the size of the venue where the presentation will be held, the time, the audience, etc. Used to enter data about the situation. Data input through this input section 1 is given to a presentation management section 2 which is in charge of overall control.
Further, it is stored in the presentation data storage section 3.

The analysis evaluation unit 4 uses the evaluation 11■ stored in the evaluation rule dictionary 5.
The input presentation materials are analyzed and evaluated using the rules. The advice generation section 6 creates necessary advice based on the evaluation results of the analysis evaluation section 4, and outputs it to the output section 7 under the control of the presentation management section 2.
Output that advice via .

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of evaluation rules stored in the evaluation rule dictionary 5. Each rule includes the appropriate number of characters per sheet and
It provides objective evaluation criteria regarding the legibility of presentation materials, such as the appropriate number of characters per line. Variables such as Ls and ClCs in each rule (rule parameters)
A specific numerical value is appropriately substituted into , depending on the presentation parameters described later. FIG. 3 is a conversion table showing the relationship between presentation parameters and rule parameters, which is also stored in the evaluation rule dictionary 5.

In a standard execution situation, "Normal" is selected as the presentation parameter.

In this case, each parameter Ls, CI in each rule.

Cs... has 8, 15, 60. A specific numerical value such as ... is substituted. For example, if the venue where the presentation is held is large, if the presentation parameter "large" is specified as information indicating the execution status of the presentation from the input unit 1, the rule parameter L
s, Cs, and Cos are changed to 6 and 50.3, respectively, and the number of lines, characters, and colors used per sheet are reduced.

Note that the "*" mark indicates the presentation parameter "Normal"
This indicates that the same value as the value of the rule parameter in is used. Furthermore, when the audience is designated to be "polite," yet another value is applied to the rule parameter. In addition to this, various states can be set using presentation parameters.

In addition to directly specifying presentation parameters as information indicating the presentation execution status,
For example, it is possible to specify information such as "the audience is elderly", "the venue is large", "the time is 15 minutes", etc., and the analysis and evaluation section 4 selects appropriate presentation parameters accordingly. good.

Next, using a slide as shown in FIG. 4 as an example of a presentation material, the operation of the analysis and evaluation section 4 will be explained based on the flowchart in FIG. 6. First, the analysis evaluation unit 4
The document data shown in the figure is analyzed to obtain an analysis result as shown in FIG. 5, for example (Sl).

The analysis result describes the number of lines, number of characters, etc. for each slide and line. If the overall required time information is input from input section 1, the time parameter is 1 calculated at the time all slides are created.
The average time per slide is given, and when the time for each slide is specified from the input section 1, that value is given.

Next, all the rules in the evaluation rule dictionary 5 are matched with the analysis results while sequentially incrementing i from 1 (S2, S3, S4 and S6). For example, when comparing the analysis results in Figure 5 with the rules in Figure 2, slide 1 has 5 lines, so it matches rule α1, but row 3
Since the number of characters is 17, it does not match rule α2.

Therefore, advice is generated by the advice generation unit 6 (S5).

That is, based on the line number (3) and rule number α2 sent from the analysis and evaluation unit 4, the advice generation unit 6 generates a message specified by the line number (3) in the document data from the presentation data storage unit 3. At the same time as reading the data at the location where
The specified rule α2 is read from the evaluation rule dictionary 5. Then, based on the value of the analysis result shown in FIG. 5 and the value shown in FIG. indicate.

Therefore, by appropriately modifying the materials based on the displayed advice, the material creator can extremely efficiently create materials appropriate for the execution status of the presentation.

In the above embodiment, only formal and temporal standards are given as rules stored in the evaluation rule dictionary 5, but the rules are not limited to such evaluation rules. It is also possible to provide evaluation rules regarding the development of the objective. In this case, a semantic analysis result of the document data may be obtained and a matching process may be performed between this and the above-mentioned evaluation rule.

In addition, in cases where it is not necessary to evaluate all of the evaluation rule dictionary 5, it is possible to specify from the input unit 1 which rule in the evaluation rule dictionary 5 should be matched, or to store it in the presentation data storage unit 3. It is also possible that the analysis/evaluation section 5 specifies the presentation execution information according to the presented presentation execution information.

[Effect of the invention] As described above, according to the invention of Bookcase 1, document data is evaluated based on the evaluation rules for the legibility and intelligibility of presentation materials provided in the system, and the evaluation results are Since it is output, presentation materials that are objectively easy to view and understand can be efficiently created.

Furthermore, according to the invention of Bookbox 2, by modifying the evaluation rules according to the execution status of the presentation, it is possible to efficiently create presentation materials appropriate for the execution environment of the presentation.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 7 are diagrams for explaining a presentation support system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing an evaluation rule dictionary. Figure 4 is a diagram showing an example of the stored FF value rules, Figure 4 is a diagram showing an example of displaying busentation data, Figure 5 is a diagram showing the analysis results of the analysis and evaluation section, and Figure 4 is the diagram of the analysis and evaluation section FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation flow, and is a diagram showing an example of generated advice. 1... Input section, 2... Presentation management section,
3... Presentation data management unit, 4... Analysis evaluation unit, 5... Evaluation rule dictionary, 6... Advice generation unit, 7... Output unit. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue No. 30 No. 2 Fraudulent diagram

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An input means for inputting presentation materials consisting of information such as characters, figures, tables, images, etc., and evaluation rules that store evaluation rules that provide evaluation criteria for ease of viewing and understanding of presentation materials. A dictionary, an analysis and evaluation means for analyzing and evaluating presentation materials inputted through the input section based on the evaluation rules, and an output means for outputting the evaluation results of the analysis and evaluation means. A distinctive presentation support system. (2) The input means includes means for inputting information regarding the execution status of the presentation, and the analysis evaluation means appropriately modifies the evaluation rule according to the information regarding the execution status inputted via the input means. 2. The presentation support system according to claim 1, wherein the presentation support system is used as a presentation support system.