Electronic Placemat: A Sketching Application for Pen-and-Paper Games
by
Ian Li
Most research with pen-based computer applications have focused on informal work-oriented activities such as prototyping web sites and user interfaces, early design in architecture, and whiteboard tasks. I present a project to support a different informal activity, playing pen-and-paper games, and to widen the target audience to include children. This project is called the Electronic Placemat (EP) and it is a Tablet PC application that allows two people to play games such as hangman and tic-tac-toe. I will discuss the issues in building EP to naturally support game play, such as creating a paper-like user interface, determining user intentions through their strokes, and supporting the interaction of two people playing on one Tablet PC. I will also address my observations of people playing pen-and-paper games both on paper and the Tablet PC and how it guided my development of EP.
Advised by Richard Anderson
EE1 037
Wednesday
May 12, 2004
4:30 - 5:20 pm