Fluid Inking
Fluid Inking is a generally applicable approach to augmenting the fluid medium of free-form inking with gestural commands. Our approach is characterized by four design criteria, including: 1) pen-based hardware impartiality: all interactions can be performed with a button-free stylus, the minimal input hardware requirement for inking, and the least common denominator device for pen-based systems ranging from PDAs to whiteboards; 2) performability: gestures use short sequences of simple and familiar inking interactions that require minimal targeting; 3) extensibility: gestures are a regular pattern of optional shortcuts for commands in an arbitrarily scalable menu system; and 4) discoverability: gesture shortcuts (analogous to modifier keys) are displayed in the interactive menu and are suggested with dynamic feedback during inking.
Project status: Active
People
| Timothy S. Miller |
| Andries van Dam |
| Robert C. Zeleznik |
Publications
Zeleznik, R. C., Miller, T. S., Holden, L. S., and LaViola, J. J. Fluid Inking: Using Punctuation to Allow Modeless Combination of Marking and Gesturing. Tech. Rep. CS-04-11, Brown University Computer Science, 2004.
| Page Owner: Webmaster | Last Modified: Mon Oct 23 14:57:09 2006 |