Forms/3: A first-order visual language to explore the boundaries of the spreadsheet paradigm
Journal of Functional Programming
Drag-and-guess: drag-and-drop with prediction
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
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A critical incident is reported where a discretionary user needed to partition the spreadsheet grid into an arithmetic series of blocks and apply a function to each, but was unable to devise a solution. The incident is first scrutinized to explicate the reasons for the failure. Then, a new method for progressional computation on tabular displays is described and reviewed for usability. The method increases the expressive power of cell referencing but also simplifies the notation. The spreadsheet is shown to be a surprisingly poor artefact for three classes of display-based problem.