Mixed-Initiative Approaches to Global Editing in Slideware

Edge, Darren; Milic-Frayling, Natasa; Gulwani, Sumit; Raza, Mohammad; Adhitya Saputra, Reza; Wang, Chao; Yatani, Koji

Abstract

© Copyright 2015 ACM. Good alignment and repetition of objects across presentation slides can facilitate visual processing and contribute to audience understanding. However, creating and maintaining such consistency during slide design is difficult. In order to solve this problem, we present two complementary tools: (1) StyleSnap, which increases the alignment and repetition of objects by adaptively clustering object edge positions and allowing parallel editing of all objects snapped to the same spatial extent; and (2) FlashFormat, which infers the least-general generalization of editing examples and applies it throughout the selected range. In user studies of repetitive styling task performance, StyleSnap and FlashFormat were 4-5 times and 2-3 times faster than conventional editing, respectively. Both use a mixed-initiative approach to improve the consistency of slide decks and generalize to any situations involving editing across disjoint visual spaces.

Citation

Edge, D., Milic-Frayling, N., Gulwani, S., Raza, M., Adhitya Saputra, R., Wang, C., & Yatani, K. (2015). Mixed-Initiative Approaches to Global Editing in Slideware. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. , (3503-3512). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702551

• Conference Name: CHI '15: the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Start Date: Nov 18, 2018
• End Date: Apr 23, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Dec 14, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Apr 18, 2015
• Publication Date: Apr 18, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Volume: 2015-April
• Pages: 3503-3512
• Book Title: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 9781450331456
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702551
• Keywords: Presentations; visual consistency; layout editing; snapping; programming by example; least-general generalization.
• Public URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2702123.2702551
• Publisher URL: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2710000/2702551/p3503-edge.pdf?ip=82.20.110.222&id=2702551&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=BF07A2EE685417C5%2E9530128DD756F5CF%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1543231212_fb5cfc7b7716d32694faeb76193828d7#URLTOKEN