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Frontiers in Pen and Touch

Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education

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  • © 2017

Overview

  • 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. Introductions and Welcome

  2. Math For All: Elementary Math

  3. Math For All: High School and College Math

  4. Personalized Feedback and Sketching in Science and Engineering

  5. Increasing Liberal Arts Engagement and Learning with Sketch

  6. Let’s Collaborate

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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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