Polaris: Providing context aware navigation in spreadsheets

Polaris: Providing context aware navigation in spreadsheets

Jansen, B. (TU Delft Software Engineering)

2016-09-01

Spreadsheets are a successful example of an end-user programming language, and the spreadsheet paradigm shares several characteristics like composition, selection, and repetition with programming languages. There are compelling reasons that spreadsheets are code. For most programming languages, developers are supported by powerful IDEs. However, spreadsheets are missing such an IDE. In our current work we are researching how spreadsheet users could be supported by an IDE for spreadsheets and what kind of functionality should be included? As a preliminary result of this research, we introduce in this showpiece: Polaris, an excel Add-in that provides users with context-aware navigation in spreadsheets.

programming environments
programming languages
spreadsheet programs
ubiquitous computing
context aware navigation
spreadsheets
end-programming language
integrated development environments
IDE
Polaris
Navigation
Switches
Computer languages
Software engineering
Visualization
Standards organizations

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5df1d39f-adff-4c15-a8dd-81e82e7f0c48

https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2016.7739690

2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2016, 2016-09-04 → 2016-09-08, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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