Sketching informal presentations

  • Authors:
  • Yang Li;James A. Landay;Zhiwei Guan;Xiangshi Ren;Guozhong Dai

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Informal presentations are a lightweight means for fast and convenient communication of ideas. People communicate their ideas to others on paper and whiteboards, which afford fluid sketching of graphs, words and other expressive symbols. Unlike existing authoring tools that are designed for formal presentations, we created SketchPoint to help presenters design informal presentations via freeform sketching. In SketchPoint, presenters can quickly author presentations by sketching slide content, overall hierarchical structures and hyperlinks. To facilitate the transition from idea capture to communication, a note-taking workspace was built for accumulating ideas and sketching presentation outlines. Informal feedback showed that SketchPoint is a promising tool for idea communication.