CounterPoint is a zooming presentation tool that acts as a plugin to PowerPoint. It allows you to arrange your PowerPoint slides on a zooming canvas that is provided by Jazz. CounterPoint also provides the capability to create multiple scripted paths through your spatial slide arrangements. Presentations created in CounterPoint are also interactive, so you can deviate from a scripted path at presentation-time based on audience feedback, time constraints, or other factors.
CounterPoint is being developed by Lance Good and Ben Bederson in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.
Good, L., & Bederson, Benjamin B. (2002) Zoomable User Interfaces as a Medium for Slide Show Presentations, Information Visualization, 1(1), pp. 35-49.
Good, L. & Bederson, Benjamin, B. (2001) " CounterPoint: Creating Jazzy Interactive Presentations", HCIL Tech Report #2001-03, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
CounterPoint User Manual. Created by David Gallegos and Karyth Becenti as a class project for Charles Paine at the University of New Mexico.
CounterPoint is one of the HCIL Products available for licensing by the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland. Please read the licensing terms carefully. By downloading CounterPoint, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of the CounterPoint Noncommercial Use License.
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CounterPoint in the editing canvas mode, where slides are arranged spatially
and presentation paths are created through these arrangements.
CounterPoint in the layout organizer mode, where a presenter can organize
slides into a hierarchy and apply layout templates to automatically arrange
slides along predefined shapes. 
CounterPoint in presentation mode. Slides that have already been visited
during the presentation have a red border. 