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Frontiers in Pen and Touch

Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education

  • Details new research methods for understanding pen and touch
  • Provides evidence of the educational benefits of pen and touch in the classroom
  • Explores new directions for the future of pen and touch in education
  • Reveals novel tutoring systems in STEM education, as well as in informal education, outreach, and games
  • Highlights how sketch recognition can provide forensic information that can be harnessed to provide personalized feedback

Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introductions and Welcome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction: Frontiers in Pen and Touch Research

      • Tracy Hammond, Aaron Adler, Manoj Prasad, Anna Stepanova
      Pages 3-24
  3. Math For All: Elementary Math

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Classroom Learning Partner: Pen-Based Software for Creating and Sharing Visual Representations

      • Kimberle Koile, Andee Rubin, Steven Chapman, Lily Ko
      Pages 27-30
    3. Machine Analysis of Array Skip Counting in Elementary Math

      • Kimberle Koile, Andee Rubin, Steven Chapman
      Pages 31-50
    4. TouchCounts and Gesture Design

      • Nicholas Jackiw, Nathalie Sinclair
      Pages 51-62
  4. Math For All: High School and College Math

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Sketch Based Interaction Techniques for Chart Creation and Manipulation

      • AndrĂ©s N. Vargas González, Eugene M. Taranta II, Joseph J. LaViola Jr.
      Pages 65-82
    3. Sketching Graphs in a Calculus MOOC: Preliminary Results

      • Jennifer French, Martin A. Segado, Phillip Z. Ai
      Pages 93-102
  5. Personalized Feedback and Sketching in Science and Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Tablet PC Goal-Directed Practice Coupled with Real-Time Targeted Feedback Enhances Food Chemistry Learning

      • Enrique Palou, Judith V. Gutierrez Cuba, Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Aurelio Lopez-Malo
      Pages 105-123
    3. DCSR: A Digital Circuit Sketch Recognition System for Education

      • Shuo Ma, Yongbin Sun, Pengchen Lyu, Seth Polsley, Tracy Hammond
      Pages 137-146
    4. An Intelligent Sketching Interface for Education Using Geographic Information Systems

      • Aqib Niaz Bhat, Girish Kasiviswanathan, Christy Maria Mathew, Seth Polsley, Erik Prout, Daniel W. Goldberg et al.
      Pages 147-163
  6. Increasing Liberal Arts Engagement and Learning with Sketch

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. A Multilingual Sketch-Based Sudoku Game with Real-Time Recognition

      • Caio D. D. Monteiro, Meenakshi Narayanan, Seth Polsley, Tracy Hammond
      Pages 187-196
  7. Let’s Collaborate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

About this book

This inspirational book contains evidence-based research presented by educational scientists, for the advancement of stylus-based technology and its applications for college and K-12 classrooms. Writing and sketching are an important part of teaching and learning, and digital ink technologies enable us to perform these activities in a digital world. Frontiers in Pen and Touch aims to highlight software and hardware practices and innovations, to encourage transformational use of pen and touch in the classroom. The content of the book is derived from the 2016 Conference on Pen and Touch Technology on Education (CPTTE).

Chapters written by academic practitioners provide stories of success for ink, including multimedia content creation and increasing student engagement. Industry and academic researchers share their findings and present intelligent systems that enable pen and touch systems to teach and motivate students. This book is a must-read for anyonewanting to harness and integrate pen and touch for improving today’s student experiences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sketch Recognition Lab, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Tracy Hammond

  • Information and Knowledge Technologies, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Columbia, USA

    Aaron Adler

  • Microsoft, Redmond, USA

    Manoj Prasad

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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