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Comparing and managing multiple versions of slide presentations

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Despite the ubiquity of slide presentations, managing multiple presentations remains a challenge. Understanding how multiple versions of a presentation are related to one another, assembling new presentations from existing presentations, and collaborating to create and edit presentations are difficult tasks. In this paper, we explore techniques for comparing and managing multiple slide presentations. We propose a general comparison framework for computing similarities and differences between slides. Based on this framework we develop an interactive tool for visually comparing multiple presentations. The interactive visualization facilitates understanding how presentations have evolved over time. We show how the interactive tool can be used to assemble new presentations from a collection of older ones and to merge changes from multiple presentation authors.

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    UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
    October 2006
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    ISBN:1595933131
    DOI:10.1145/1166253
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    1. alignment
    2. correspondence
    3. distance metrics
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