Sketching informal presentations

Informal presentations are a lightweight means for fast and convenient communication of ideas. People communicate their ideas to others on paper and whiteboards, which afford fluid sketching of graphs, words and other expressive symbols. Unlike existing authoring tools that are designed for formal presentations, we created SketchPoint to help presenters design informal presentations via freeform sketching. In SketchPoint, presenters can quickly author presentations by sketching slide content, overall hierarchical structures and hyperlinks. To facilitate the transition from idea capture to communication, a note-taking workspace was built for accumulating ideas and sketching presentation outlines. Informal feedback showed that SketchPoint is a promising tool for idea communication. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces – prototyping, user-centered design, interaction styles. General Terms: Design, Human Factors. Keywords In...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICMI
• Authors: Yang Li, James A. Landay, Zhiwei Guan, Xiangshi Ren, Guozhong Dai
• Keywords: Fluid Sketching, ICMI 2003, Informal Presentation, User Interface