<par>Sketching is a powerful means of interpersonal communication. While many useful multimodal systems have been created, current systems are far from achieving human-like participation in sketching. A computational model of sketching would help characterize these differences and help us better understand how to overcome them. This paper is a first step towards such a model. We start with an example of a sketching system<italic>(nuSketch COA Creator)</italic>designed to aid military planners, to provide context and a source of examples. We then describe four dimensions of sketching,<italic>visual understanding, conceptual understanding, language understanding,</italic>and<italic>drawing,</italic>that can be used to characterize the competence of existing systems and identify open problems. The issues involved will be illustrated by examples from our experience with nuSketch. Three research challenges are posed, to serve as milestones towards a computational model of sketching that can explain and replicate human abilities in this area.</par>
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Forbus2001
%A Forbus, Kenneth D.
%A Ferguson, Ronald W.
%A Usher, Jeffery M.
%B Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2001
%I ACM
%K model modeling sketching
%P 77--83
%R 10.1145/359784.360278
%T Towards a computational model of sketching
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/359784.360278
%X <par>Sketching is a powerful means of interpersonal communication. While many useful multimodal systems have been created, current systems are far from achieving human-like participation in sketching. A computational model of sketching would help characterize these differences and help us better understand how to overcome them. This paper is a first step towards such a model. We start with an example of a sketching system<italic>(nuSketch COA Creator)</italic>designed to aid military planners, to provide context and a source of examples. We then describe four dimensions of sketching,<italic>visual understanding, conceptual understanding, language understanding,</italic>and<italic>drawing,</italic>that can be used to characterize the competence of existing systems and identify open problems. The issues involved will be illustrated by examples from our experience with nuSketch. Three research challenges are posed, to serve as milestones towards a computational model of sketching that can explain and replicate human abilities in this area.</par>
%@ 1-58113-325-1
@inproceedings{Forbus2001,
abstract = {<par>Sketching is a powerful means of interpersonal communication. While many useful multimodal systems have been created, current systems are far from achieving human-like participation in sketching. A computational model of sketching would help characterize these differences and help us better understand how to overcome them. This paper is a first step towards such a model. We start with an example of a sketching system<italic>(nuSketch COA Creator)</italic>designed to aid military planners, to provide context and a source of examples. We then describe four dimensions of sketching,<italic>visual understanding, conceptual understanding, language understanding,</italic>and<italic>drawing,</italic>that can be used to characterize the competence of existing systems and identify open problems. The issues involved will be illustrated by examples from our experience with nuSketch. Three research challenges are posed, to serve as milestones towards a computational model of sketching that can explain and replicate human abilities in this area.</par>},
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author = {Forbus, Kenneth D. and Ferguson, Ronald W. and Usher, Jeffery M.},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces},
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location = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States},
numpages = {7},
pages = {77--83},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {IUI '01},
timestamp = {2011-04-28T15:26:30.000+0200},
title = {Towards a computational model of sketching},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/359784.360278},
year = 2001
}