This poster presents concepts to support authors illustrating their texts. We introduce a system which smoothly integrates the search and adaptation of appropriate illustrations into target documents. It enables the author to search for images and 3D models. To effectively support the context of the document, the view and label layout of the retrieved 3D models can be semi-automatically adjuste...

Suppose that you grab a newspaper and find an article including an illustration that looks interesting. You may read it. If it comes without an illustration, however, you may or may not read it. We call this phenomenon the motivation effect of illustrations. Shimada and Kitajima (2006) proposed an experimental method to evaluate motivation effect of illustrations in manuals and demonstrated tha...

Two experiments tested how the number of illustrations in storybooks influences 3.5-year-old children’s word learning from shared reading. In Experiment 1, children encountered stories with either two illustrations, one illustration or one large illustration (in the control group) per spread. Children learned significantly fewer words when they had to find the referent within two illustrations ...