Share Paper: Controlling the Electronic Whiteboard’s Writing Surface without Cluttered Toolboxes: Shifting the Focus Back to Content Delivery

  1. Khaireel Mohamed, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
  2. Thomas Ottmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Friday, October 28 10:00-10:30 AM Grand Ballroom D

Abstract: We present an interaction technique for classroom teaching, through our software for electronic whiteboards, which allows the writing surfaces of the boards to be used as if they were ordinary whiteboards. Toolboxes have been ubiquitously tucked away in the background. These tools appear only (and whenever) they are in-demand, at the stroke of a recognised ink-gesture. The incorporation of our context-aware ink-gesture recognition technique into the software frees instructors from searching for correct menu items on the board’s perimeter. Based on the input ink-gesture command, it analyses the current contextual ink information on the board’s writing surface, gathers the most ...