Rodriguez-Diaz, Alexis M.

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Culture-adaptive document design assessment
(2010) Rodriguez-Diaz, Alexis M.; Vega-Riveros, José F.; College of Engineering; Santiago, Nayda; Rodríguez, Manuel; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rullán-Toro, Agustín
An approach to analyze the aesthetics of a document’s design is researched. The premise behind the developed methodology is that the perception of beauty and pleasantness of a document’s design is dependent on the viewing audience, which can vary between cultures. The methodology was developed with people who are not document design experts in mind, including students and clerical office workers. The system applies concepts from Case-Based Reasoning and document matching methods to provide assessment data from previously evaluated documents that are similar to the document in question, but before selecting such a methodology a Layout Esthetics Measurement methodology was explored. The system’s effectiveness is assessed by cross-comparing matching results between documents in a sample set. A variant version of a Confusion Matrix, which we name Distance Matrix, is employed in the visualization of these matching results.