Evaluate the contribution of multimedia to effective academic communication

Determine how multimedia elements such as videos, animations, and interactive components contribute to the effectiveness of academic communication in research project webpages derived from scientific papers.

Background

The paper introduces Paper2Web, a task, dataset, and evaluation suite for generating academic webpages from scientific papers, and proposes PWAgent as an automated pipeline to produce interactive, multimedia-rich sites. While the work defines metrics for connectivity, completeness, holistic quality, and a PaperQuiz for knowledge transfer, the authors acknowledge a gap in assessing the specific role of multimedia.

In the discussion, they explicitly note that rigorously evaluating how multimedia elements enhance academic communication remains unresolved, indicating the need for future methodologies and evaluations that can isolate and quantify multimedia effects.