Pavel, A., Reed, C., Hartmann, B., & Agrawala, M. (2014). Video digests: A browsable, skimmable format for informational lecture videos. Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 573–582

Generalized adaptation of the web presentation of Media for Thinking the Unthinkable - Bret Victor, which segments the video visually and chapters and sections through thumbnails and summary text for rapid scanning and navigation.

The paper applies this design to lecture videos and evaluates how students learn under time pressure with this design vs. traditional video with a transcript. The authors describe a WYSIWYG editing tool for creating these digests, an algorithm for automated segmentation, and a crowdsourced summarization pipeline.

• First author Amy Pavel; supervisor Maneesh Agrawala.
• http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/videodigests/
• Demo (offline as of 2022-07-06): https://videodigests.com/