InkKit: a generic design tool for the tablet PC

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Chung;Petrut Mirica;Beryl Plimmer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • CHINZ '05 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: making CHI natural
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design philosophy, implementation and evaluation of InkKit, an informal design platform that uses pen input on a tablet PC to imitate the informality of a low fidelity tool. The aim is for this toolkit to provide a foundation for further research into domain specific sketch support.Designers initially hand-sketch their ideas [3, 6] because informal tools, such as pen and paper, offer the freedom to work with partly formed or ambiguous designs. The emergence of electronic pen input systems has seen a number of exploratory projects applying pen-based sketch software to the design process. Even though these projects differ, most of them use the same general framework. Thus a significant part of the implementation incorporates the same basic functionalities.