Name
Abstract | ||
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Many computer algebra systems have more than 1000 built-in functions, making expertise difficult. Using mock dialog boxes, this article describes a proposed interactive general-purpose wizard for organizing optional transformations and allowing easy fine grain control over the form of the result -- even by amateurs. This wizard integrates ideas including: flexible subexpression selection; complete control over the ordering of variables and commutative operands, with wellchosen defaults; interleaving the choice of successively less main variables with applicable function choices to provide detailed control without incurring a combinatorial number of applicable alternatives at any one level; quick applicability tests to reduce the listing of inapplicable transformations; using an organizing principle to order the alternatives in a helpful manner; labeling quickly-computed alternatives in dialog boxes with a preview of their results, using ellipsis elisions if necessary or helpful; allowing the user to retreat from a sequence of choices to explore other branches of the tree of alternatives -- or to return quickly to branches already visited; allowing the user to accumulate more than one of the alternative forms; integrating direct manipulation into the wizard; and supporting not only the usual input-result pair mode, but also the useful alternative derivational and in situ replacement modes in a unified window. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1145/2576802.2576827 | ACM Communications in Computer Algebra |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
complete control,mock dialog box,helpful manner,computer algebra user interface,proposed interactive general-purpose wizard,detailed control,applicable alternative,alternative form,applicable function choice,dialog box,easy fine grain control | Dialog box,Organizing principle,Commutative property,Operand,Symbolic computation,Theoretical computer science,User interface,Mathematics,Interleaving,Wizard | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
47 | 3/4 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 19 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| David R. Stoutemyer | 1 | 49 | 19.14 |