An investigation of document aesthetics for web-to-print repurposing of small-medium business marketing collateral

J. P. Allebach; Maria Ortiz Segovia; C. Brian Atkins; Eamonn O'Brien-Strain; Niranjan Damera-Venkata; Nina Bhatti; Jerry Liu; Qian Lin

doi:10.1117/12.843923

10 February 2010 An investigation of document aesthetics for web-to-print repurposing of small-medium business marketing collateral

J. P. Allebach, Maria Ortiz Segovia, C. Brian Atkins, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Niranjan Damera-Venkata, Nina Bhatti, Jerry Liu, Qian Lin

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Proceedings Volume 7540, Imaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV; 75400G (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843923
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Businesses have traditionally relied on different types of media to communicate with existing and potential customers. With the emergence of the Web, the relation between the use of print and electronic media has continually evolved. In this paper, we investigate one possible scenario that combines the use of the Web and print. Specifically, we consider the scenario where a small- or medium-sized business (SMB) has an existing web site from which they wish to pull content to create a print piece. Our assumption is that the web site was developed by a professional designer, working in conjunction with the business owner or marketing team, and that it contains a rich assembly of content that is presented in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Our goal is to understand the process that a designer would follow to create an effective and aesthetically pleasing print piece. We are particularly interested to understand the choices made by the designer with respect to placement and size of the text and graphic elements on the page. Toward this end, we conducted an experiment in which professional designers worked with SMBs to create print pieces from their respective web pages. In this paper, we report our findings from this experiment, and examine the underlying conclusions regarding the resulting document aesthetics in the context of the existing design, and engineering and computer science literatures that address this topic

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J. P. Allebach, Maria Ortiz Segovia, C. Brian Atkins, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Niranjan Damera-Venkata, Nina Bhatti, Jerry Liu, and Qian Lin "An investigation of document aesthetics for web-to-print repurposing of small-medium business marketing collateral", Proc. SPIE 7540, Imaging and Printing in a Web 2.0 World; and Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems IV, 75400G (10 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843923

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