flow selection

(sketching)

Flow selection is a time-based modeless selection and operation technique for freehand drawing and sketch tools. Flow selection offers a modeless technique to address the observation that modal selection requires too much cognitive effort and causes breakdowns in creative flow. Flow selection provides input to a new class of operations by assigning increasing, fractional selection strengths to objects over time. We discuss the current prototype system and possible applications for this novel technique for interacting with sketches.

web page: http://code.arc.cmu.edu/~johnsogg/flowSelection/

researchers: Gabe Johnson

sponsor: Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) and NSF ITR 03-26054

last updated 3.19.2007 by Gabe Johnson