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4.3.1 Inserting a New Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 4.3.2 Inserting Multiple Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.3.3 Selecting Smart Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4.3.4 Adjusting the Smart Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.3.5 Higher-Order Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5 Implementation 69 5.1 Program Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.1.1 Overview: Entity-Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.1.2 Hierarchy and Interfaces of UI Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 5.1.3 Windows Message Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 5.2 An Application of Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.2.1 The Gridline Matching Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.2.2 A Recursive Algorithm with Exponential Running Time . . . 77 5.2.3 Finding the Optimal Solution in Polynomial Time . . . . . . 80 5.2.4 Advanced Gridline Matching Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 82 6 Evaluation 83 6.1 Estimating the Potential Speed-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 6.1.1 Speedup for Chart Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 6.1.2 Speedup for Slide Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 6.1.3 Expected Over-All Speed-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 6.2 Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 6.2.1 Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 6.2.2 Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 6.2.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 7 Conclusion 88 7.1 Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 7.2 Résumé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 References 91 4
List of Figures 1 The consultant’s workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2 The visual’s workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 Basic elements of a consultancy slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 Chart types (selected examples) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5 Proportionate times of PowerPoint activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 Relative frequency of chart type use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7 A pie menu as seen in The Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8 Design refinements on marking menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 9 Typical slide exemplifying layout rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 10 The think-cell add-in as seen by the user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 11 This work in the context of the think-cell application . . . . . . . . . 36 12 Interaction between smart elements and smart gridlines . . . . . . . 36 13 Solving a constraint system to determine the optimal layout . . . . . 37 14 PowerPoint deficits remedied by a “smart grid” . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 15 A circular menu as seen in the prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 16 Inserting a new shape into the smart grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 17 Single-click insertion (one neighbor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 18 Single-click insertion (two neighbors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 19 Single-click insertion (halving the area) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 20 Single-click insertion (another example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 21 Gridlines highlight to indicate snapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 22 Snapping can align a new element with distant shapes . . . . . . . . 56 23 Single-click insertion displacing another shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 24 Drag-and-drop insertion displacing another shape . . . . . . . . . . . 57 25 Insertion between two shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 26 Insertion with overlap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 27 Inserting multiple elements in one interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 28 Duplicating multiple elements in one interaction . . . . . . . . . . . 61 29 Inserting a row into a table of text boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 30 Strictly 2-dimensional edge-based selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 31 Dragging a gridline to adjust the global layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 32 Gridlines can be merged and can be split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 33 Moving anchorpoints to adjust the local layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 34 Example for wrong z-order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 35 Example for correct z-order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 36 Schematic interaction between the add-in and PowerPoint . . . . . . 69 37 Program architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 38 Selected class diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 39 Instantiation of appropriate UI objects on request . . . . . . . . . . 74 40 Processing of user input and generation of visual feedback . . . . . . 75 41 Matching two lists of gridlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5
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Page 3: Contents List of Figures 5 1 Introd
Page 7 and 8: 1 Introduction INTRODUCTION “Layo
Page 9 and 10: 2 Field Study FIELD STUDY Jeff Hawk
Page 11 and 12: 2.1 Qualitative Aspects FIELD STUDY
Page 19 and 20: 2.2 Quantitative Aspects FIELD STUD
Page 25 and 26: 3 State of the Art STATE OF THE ART
Page 27 and 28: 3.1 User Interfaces for Layout Spec
Page 29 and 30: 3.2 Computer Supported Layout STATE
Page 31 and 32: 3.2 Computer Supported Layout STATE
Page 33 and 34: 3.3 State of the Art - Résumé STA
Page 35 and 36: 4.1 A New Approach to Slide Layout
Page 43 and 44: 4.2 Interaction Toolbox INTERACTION
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6 Evaluation EVALUATION In this cha
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6.2 Case Study EVALUATION presented
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7.2 Résumé CONCLUSION User Studie
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References REFERENCES [Adoa] Adobe
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REFERENCES [Hur78] A. Hurlburt. The
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