Pen Computing, Digital Ink, and Research for the Tablet PC

Опубликовано 7 сентября 2016, 16:09

Digital Ink is a new, rich data type linked to a powerful underlying Tablet PC API that enables many functions previously difficult, impossible, or simply unavailable to computer users. The applications and research directions examined in this session represent the latest thinking and efforts to reduce the gap between the digital world and the paper world, open up entirely new metaphors for expression and gestures for collaboration, and provide innovative 3D drawing paradigms, among other capabilities. Ken Hinckley and François Guimbretière will discuss a number projects they have worked on both separately and in collaboration together. These include but are not limited to: Stich, an interaction test bed for discovering rapid and intuitive interaction techniques for pen-enabled computing in which they use gestures to enable file sharing as well as a number of other activities, and Scriboli, which proposes the fundamental building blocks of a grammar for pen input by linking together object, verb, and indirect object in fast fluid, unambiguous commands. They will also cover other projects such as PapierCraft and HoverWidgets, and the latest work with CrossY, a crossing-based drawing application. Hod will demo his very powerful, intuitive, and stunningly easy to use design tool, 3D Accelerator, which enables a robust array of capabilities for designing three dimensional objects, and which allows rapid, intuitive prototyping of design ideas that can then be reality-tested, interactively and in real time.