Overcoming Hard-To-Reach Toolboxes with On-Demand Menu Options for Cascading Electronic Whiteboards in Classrooms

Authors:
Khaireel A. Mohamed;Thomas Ottmann
Affiliations:
Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79110, Germany, {khaireel, ottmann}@informatik.uni-freiburg.de;Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79110, Germany, {khaireel, ottmann}@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Interactivity designs that can understand where the user is working, where the user's focus of attention is, and what is going on within a focused environment are considered context-sensitive. Our combined methods of context-aware and ink-gesture recognition technique for large, high-resolution electronic whiteboards, tucks away hard-to-reach toolboxes ubiquitously in the background. These tools appear only (and whenever) they are in-demand, at the stroke of a recognised ink-gesture, and are an added advantage when these wall-mounted boards are cascaded in series next to each other. Consequently, the dynamism of the popup menus' behaviour shifts the attention of the users back towards content delivery (at full screens) in front of a live audience.