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Using tangible drawing tools on a capacitive multi-touch display

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BCS-HCI '12: Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers

Pages 315 - 320

Published: 10 September 2012 Publication History

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We present an innovative drawing tool that can detect tangible drawing instruments on a capacitive multi-touch tablet. There are three core components to the system: the tangible hardware, the recognizer used to identify the tangibles, and the drawing application. Our tangible drawing instruments include a ruler, protractor and set square. Users can apply these familiar physical instruments to construct digital ink drawings on a tablet in an intuitive and engaging manner. The user evaluation shows that the tangible drawing tools are easy to use and have a high rate of recognition on the touch screen.

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