Title
I/O brush: drawing with everyday objects as ink
Abstract
We introduce I/O Brush, a new drawing tool aimed at young children, ages four and up, to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, children can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment. In our preliminary study with kindergarteners, we found that children not only produced complex works of art using I/O Brush, but they also engaged in explicit talk about patterns and features available in their environment. I/O Brush invites children to explore the transformation from concrete and familiar raw material into abstract concepts about patterns of colors, textures and movements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/985692.985731
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
drawing canvas,familiar raw material,everyday material,immediate environment,new drawing tool,everyday object,o brush,complex work,explicit talk,preliminary study,abstract concept,drawing,input device,raw materials
Storytelling,Computer graphics (images),Inkwell,Paintbrush,Computer science,Brush,Input/output,Video camera,Tangible user interface,Input device
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-702-8
117
8.37
References 
Authors
13
3
Search Limit
100117
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kimiko Ryokai180188.65
Stefan Marti219514.86
Hiroshi Ishii386661572.08