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Title

Beautifying sketching-based design tool content: issues and experiences

Author(s)

Plimmer, Beryl;  Grundy, John

Abstract

With the advent of the Tablet PC and stylus-based PDAs, sketching-based user interfaces for design tools have become popular. However, a major challenge with such interfaces is the need for appropriate "beautification" of the sketches. This includes both interactive beautification as content is sketched and post-design conversion of sketches to formalised, computer-drawn diagrams. We discuss a number of beautification issues and requirements for sketching-based design tools, illustrating these with examples from two quite different sketching-based applications. We illustrate ways of supporting beautification, user interface design and implementation challenges, and results from preliminary evaluations of such interfaces.

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Conferences in research and practice in information technology: proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on User Interface (AUIC '05), Newcastle, Australia, 31 January - 03 February 2005 / Mark Billinghurst, and Andy Cockburn (eds.), Vol. 40, pp. 31-38

Publication year

2005

Keyword(s)

Sketch beautification;  Sketching-based user interfaces

Publisher

Australian Computer Society

ISBN

9781920682224, 1920682228

Publisher URL

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1082248

Copyright

Copyright © 2005, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the 6th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2005), Newcastle. Conferences in Research and Practice in information Technology, Vol. 40. M. Billinghurst and A. Cockburn, Eds. Reproduction for academic, not-for profit purposes permitted provided this text is included. The paper is reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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