Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sketch-Based Educational Games: "Drawing" Kids Away from Traditional Interfaces

Authors: Brandon Paulson, Brian Eoff, Aaron Wolin, Joshua Johnston, Tracy Hammond

Summary:
This paper discusses about various games where sketch recognition is useful.
APPLES - Animated Planetary Physics Learning and Entertainment Simulation using LADDER, Memory games involving sketches , Tools for sketching on maps, Sentence Diagramming - tool to annotate on sentence.

Discussion:
This paper gives a different applications of Sketch recognition.
Thinking in similar lines, i think a tool can be developed for finding if a person has dyslexia (getting confused between similar shapes). One more idea would be to develop tool to analyze how children learn writing. One way i could think of , is to ask a child to replicate a letter and find the closeness of the input to the letter. This would help us understand how handwriting of a person evolves. I dont know if it would be useful though.

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