Designing Video-Based Interactive Instructions

Contents

Contents ii
List of Figures iv
List of Tables ix

1. 
   Introduction 1
   
   1. 
      Challenges of Creating and Consuming Instructions 3
      
   2. 
      Thesis Contributions 8
      
   3. 
      Overview 8
      
   4. 
      Prior Publications 9
      
2. 
   Background 10
   
   1. 
      Instructions: Terminology 10
      
   2. 
      Why Authoring and Consuming Instructions? 14
      
   3. 
      Techniques of Effective Instructions 14
      
   4. 
      Instruction Production Process 20
      
   5. 
      Summary 23
      
3. 
   Related Work 24
   
   1. 
      Generating Instructions for Software Applications 24
      
   2. 
      Generating Instructions for Physical Activities 28
      
   3. 
      Working with Videos 33
      
4. 
   MixT: Mixed Media Tutorials 36
   
   1. 
      Introduction 36
      
   2. 
      Related Work 38
      
   3. 
      Design Guidelines 39
      
   4. 
      Computer-Generated Mixed Media Tutorials 45
      
   5. 
      Evaluation 51
      
   6. 
      Conclusion 53
      
5. 
   DemoWiz: Visualization for Software Demonstration 54
   
   1. 
      Introduction 54
      
   2. 
      Related Work 56
      
   3. 
      Design Guidelines 57
      
   4. 
      Computer-Generated Visualization 58
      
   5. 
      Evaluation 63
      
   6. 
      Conclusion 70
      
6. 
   DemoCut: Instructional Videos from Demonstration 71
   
   1. 
      Introduction 71
      
   2. 
      Design Guidelines 73
      
   3. 
      Creating Video Tutorials with DemoCut 76
      
   4. 
      Automatic Effect Decision Pipeline 80
      
   5. 
      Evaluation 84
      
   6. 
      Conclusion 89
      
7. 
   Kinectograph: Body-Tracking Camera Control 91
   
   1. 
      Introduction 91
      
   2. 
      Recording Video Tutorials with Kinectograph 93
      
   3. 
      Automatic Tracking Techniques 95
      
   4. 
      Evaluation 98
      
8.