Using a Painting Metaphor to Rate Large Numbers of Objects

An interface object providing a Boolean value range (e.g. a toggle switch) is functionally equivalent to a black and white pixel; an object with a wider, but finite value range can be represented by a gray scale pixel. Consequently, larger layouts of such interface objects can be handled as if they were black-and-white or grayscale image respectively. Consequently, all advantages of pixel painting can be made available to the efficient assessment of objects. The resulting sets of interface objects combined with one or more painting methods are called "toggle maps" (Baudisch 98