| Date | Speaker | Talk |
| Oct 7, 2004 | Ananda Gunawardena, Associate Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon |
"Research Directions in Tablet PC-Based Educational Technologies" |
Ink based computing has been around for the last 20 years primarily limited to handwriting recognition. However, since the introduction of Tablet PC as a commercial product in October 2002, research community is beginning to take a fresh look at the possibilities of pen-based computing. Pen-based computing presents some interesting opportunities for research in educational technology. Developing smart programs that can recognize student.s sketch input and apply domain specific rules to make them come to life is of particular interest to our research group. For example, a student can sketch a data structure and request the program to animate the structure to understand its dynamics. In this talk I will present some interesting ideas about sketch recognizers and their role in education. I will also demonstrate some existing projects from MIT and Cornell.