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An Architecture for Pen-based Interaction on Electronic Whiteboards (2000)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Igarashi, Takeo Edwards, W. Keith Lamarca, Anthony |
| Description | This paper describes the software architecture for our pen-based electronic whiteboard system, called Flatland. The design goal of Flatland is to support various activities on personal office whiteboards, while maintaining the outstanding ease of use and informal appearance of conventional whiteboards. The GUI framework of existing window systems is too complicated and heavy-weight to achieve this goal, and so we designed a new architecture that works as a kind of window system for penbased applications. Our architecture is characterized by its use of freeform strokes as the basic primitive for both input and output, flexible screen space segmentation, pluggable applications that can operate on each segment, and built-in history management mechanisms. This architecture is carefully designed to achieve simple, unified coding and high extensibility, which was essential to the iterative prototyping of the Flatland interface. While the current implementation is optimized for large office whiteboards, this architecture is useful for the implementation of a range of various pen-based systems. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | ACM Press |
| Publisher Date | 2000-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | New Architecture Software Architecture Various Activity High Extensibility Flatland Interface Large Office Whiteboards Unified Coding Pen-based Electronic Whiteboard System Built-in History Management Mechanism Personal Office Whiteboards Iterative Prototyping Gui Framework Flexible Screen Space Segmentation Informal Appearance Penbased Application Electronic Whiteboards Window System Pen-based Interaction Pluggable Application Various Pen-based System Basic Primitive Outstanding Ease Freeform Stroke Conventional Whiteboards Design Goal Current Implementation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
