A Surfaceless Pen-Based Interface Conference Paper

abstract

• Freehand drawing on a computer screen allows users to provide input through a natural mode of human interaction. With this freedom of expression, however, there exists a paradoxical limitation: the user is bound through the existing interface to the fixed drawing surface. In this work, we overcome this limitation by presenting a surfaceless pen-based interface with an application in the field of sketch recognition. A pilot study was conducted to examine the usability of the surfaceless pen-based interface. Results indicated that learning to use the device is relatively straightforward, but that interaction difficulty increases in a directly proportionally manner with drawing complexity.

name of conference

• Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

authors

• Hammond, Tracy

published proceedings

• C & C 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON CREATIVITY AND COGNITION

author list (cited authors)

• Peschel, J. M., Paulson, B., & Hammond, T.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Peschel, Joshua M||Paulson, Brandon||Hammond, Tracy

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  Publisher

keywords

• Pen-based Technology
• Surfaceless User Interface

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1145/1640233.1640338

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-1-60558-403-4

start page

• 433

end page

• 434

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640338