FingerDraw: More than a Digital Paintbrush
Research in cognitive science shows that engaging in visual arts has great benefits for children particularly when it allows them to bond with nature [7]. In this paper, we introduce FingerDraw, a novel drawing interface that aims to keep children connected to the physical environment by letting the...
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| author | Hettiarachchi, Anuruddha Nanayakkara, Suranga Yeo, Kian Peen Shilkrot, Roy Maes, Patricia |
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| description | Research in cognitive science shows that engaging in visual arts has great benefits for children particularly when it allows them to bond with nature [7]. In this paper, we introduce FingerDraw, a novel drawing interface that aims to keep children connected to the physical environment by letting them use their surroundings as templates and color palette. The FingerDraw system consists of (1) a finger-worn input device [13] which allows children to upload visual contents such as shapes, colors and textures that exist in the real world; (2) a tablet with touch interface that serves as a digital canvas for drawing. In addition to real-time drawing activities, children can also collect a palette of colors and textures in the input device and later feed them into the drawing interface. Initial reactions from a case study indicated that the system could keep a child engaged with their surroundings for hours to draw using the wide range of shapes, colors and patterns found in the natural environment. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/803452022-10-02T04:42:58Z FingerDraw: More than a Digital Paintbrush Hettiarachchi, Anuruddha Nanayakkara, Suranga Yeo, Kian Peen Shilkrot, Roy Maes, Patricia Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Shilkrot, Roy Maes, Patricia Research in cognitive science shows that engaging in visual arts has great benefits for children particularly when it allows them to bond with nature [7]. In this paper, we introduce FingerDraw, a novel drawing interface that aims to keep children connected to the physical environment by letting them use their surroundings as templates and color palette. The FingerDraw system consists of (1) a finger-worn input device [13] which allows children to upload visual contents such as shapes, colors and textures that exist in the real world; (2) a tablet with touch interface that serves as a digital canvas for drawing. In addition to real-time drawing activities, children can also collect a palette of colors and textures in the input device and later feed them into the drawing interface. Initial reactions from a case study indicated that the system could keep a child engaged with their surroundings for hours to draw using the wide range of shapes, colors and patterns found in the natural environment. 2013-09-03T16:11:05Z 2013-09-03T16:11:05Z 2013-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450319041 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80345 Anuruddha Hettiarachchi, Suranga Nanayakkara, Kian Peen Yeo, Roy Shilkrot, and Pattie Maes. 2013. FingerDraw: more than a digital paintbrush. In Proceedings of the 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-4. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-4254 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459237 Proceedings of the 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '13) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery PMC |
| spellingShingle | Hettiarachchi, Anuruddha Nanayakkara, Suranga Yeo, Kian Peen Shilkrot, Roy Maes, Patricia FingerDraw: More than a Digital Paintbrush |
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| title_short | FingerDraw: More than a Digital Paintbrush |
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