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

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Mohamed, K. & Ottmann, T. (2005). Controlling the Electronic Whiteboard’s Writing Surface without Cluttered Toolboxes: Shifting the Focus Back to Content Delivery. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (pp. 3053-3068). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2005
E-Learn 2005--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
October 2005
ISBN 1-880094-57-6
  Griff Richards
AACE

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Khaireel Mohamed, Thomas Ottmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

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 probable of menu items that the instructors may require at that particular juncture, and pops them up close to where the instructors are currently writing. This becomes an added advantage when these wall-mounted boards are cascaded next to each other.

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