Reflections on AI-Assisted Character Design for Data-Driven Medical Stories
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2023
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Data-driven storytelling has experienced significant growth in recent years to become a common practice in various application areas, including healthcare. Within the realm of medical narratives, characters play a pivotal role in connecting audiences with data and conveying complex medical information in an engaging manner that may influence positive behavioral and lifestyle changes on the part of the viewer. However, the process of designing characters that are both informative and engaging remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an AI-assisted pipeline for character design in the context of data-driven medical stories. Our iterative pipeline blends design sensibilities with automation to reduce the time and artistic expertise needed to develop characters reflective of the underlying data, even when that data is time-oriented as in a cohort study.
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CCS Concepts: Narrative Visualization -> Character Design; AI Image Generation
@inproceedings{10.2312:vcbm.20231216,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {Hansen, Christian and Procter, James and Renata G. Raidou and Jönsson, Daniel and Höllt, Thomas},
title = {{Reflections on AI-Assisted Character Design for Data-Driven Medical Stories}},
author = {Budich, Beatrice and Garrison, Laura A. and Preim, Bernhard and Meuschke, Monique},
year = {2023},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-216-5},
DOI = {10.2312/vcbm.20231216}
}