think-cell technical report TC2003/01 A GUI-based Interaction ...

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
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