Patent ID: 8538549

Claim:
A method comprising: presenting, on a display, at least one view of a representation of a first stimulation field; presenting, on the display, a plurality of selectable elements, wherein each of the selectable elements is associated with a respective field adjustment function that changes the first stimulation field; receiving input selecting one of the selectable elements; subsequent to receiving the input selecting one of the selectable elements, changing the first stimulation field to a second stimulation field based on the selected one of the selectable elements; and responsive to changing the first stimulation field to the second stimulation field, selecting, by one or more processors, electrical stimulation parameter values based on the second stimulation field, wherein each of the first and second stimulation fields represents electrical stimulation able to be applied to an anatomy of a patient by a medical device, and wherein the respective field adjustment functions of each of the selectable elements include at least three of a grow, a shrink, a spread, a focus, a split, and a merge change of the first stimulation field.