Paper Info
Title
Recognizing and interpreting diagrams in design
Abstract
Hand drawn diagrams are essential tools for thinking and communicating in the early phases of design, yet computer based drawing tools support diagramming and sketching only poorly. Key components of computational support for early design include recognition, interpretation, and management of diagrams. The paper describes the motivation for, implementation of, and initial experience with the “computer as cocktail napkin” project, a design environment based on diagrams. It explains low level recognition of glyphs, construction of higher-level recognizers, and routines for managing diagrams in the cocktail napkin prototype.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1145/192309.192330
Advanced Visual Interfaces
Keywords
Field
DocType
higher-level recognizers,early phase,initial experience,early design,low level recognition,computational support,essential tool,design environment,cocktail napkin,cocktail napkin prototype,grid
Glyph,Visual interaction,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Technical drawing tools,Grid,Visual placement
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-733-2
31
4.14
References 
Authors
15
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark D. Gross123928.76