Comic Generation Support System for Users' Manuals

In this paper, we propose a support system to convert users’ manuals to comics. In the proposed system, comics are generated using the texts and images taken from a manual in advance. The user selects sentences and images used to generate comics, from candidate sentences and candidate images. Furthermore, the user can select the favorite font size and style, and generate comics that matches the preference of each user. We carried out two kinds of evaluation experiments: the first one is the comparison between the generated comics and the original PDF file, the second one is the evaluation of the user-friendliness of the proposed system. As the results, it is confirmed that the proposed system can generate manuals which are easy to read and attract interest by usage of comic representation. In addition, it is also confirmed that users can generate favorable comics as expected by simple operations.