Exploring Frame Gestures for Fluid Freehand Sketching
Description:
In this paper, we explore a minimalistic gesture-based interface for fluid freehand concept sketching with vector graphics. Our approach leverages the advantages of both the GUI and gestural interface paradigms. We describe how to use frame gestures to control rotation, translation, and scale of the drawing canvas and of stroke selections. Based on an implementation of this concept we evaluate our tool with both novices and experts, and report on both its benefits and drawbacks.
Paper download: 
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Demo:
You can download a demo of the sketching tool (for Win32, 8.8MB) and try it out for yourself. It works best when used with a Wacom tablet, but also supports interaction using a Smart Technologies DViT.
Video:
Download the video as AVI-MPEG4 (50MB) or watch it on YouTube.
Poster presented at NPAR 2009:
Cross-Reference:
This general idea of using the frame for navigation control was later used by us for the exploration of 3D scientific visualization spaces with 7DOF, see the page on this paper as well.
Main Reference:
| Menno Nijboer, Moritz Gerl, and Tobias Isenberg (2010) Exploring Frame Gestures for Fluid Freehand Sketching. In Marc Alexa and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, eds., Proceedings of the Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium (SBIM 2010, June 7–10, 2010, Annecy, France). Goslar, Germany. Eurographics Association, pages 57–62, 2010. | doi video url | ||
Other References:
| Menno Nijboer, Moritz Gerl, and Tobias Isenberg (2010) Interaction Concepts for Fluid Freehand Sketching. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI CONFERENCE 2010, November 1–3, 2010, Veldhoven, The Netherlands). 2010. Paper number 12. Also see the paper at SBIM 2010. | pdf video url | ||
| Menno Nijboer, Moritz Gerl, and Tobias Isenberg (2009) Interaction Concepts for Digital Concept Sketching. In Holger Winnemöller and Marc Nienhaus, eds., Poster Presentations of the Seventh International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2009, August 1–2, 2009, New Orleans, USA). 2009. Extended abstract and poster, also see the paper at SBIM 2010. | pdf url | ||
| Menno Nijboer (2009) User Interactions for Scalable Freehand Sketching. Master's thesis, University of Groningen, 2009. | pdf url | ||