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International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams

Diagrams 2002: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference pp 103–105Cite as

An Environment for Conducting and Analysing Graphical Communication Experiments

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Drawing is a basic but often overlooked mode of human communication. This paper presents a shared whiteboard environment, written in Java, that was designed to be used to collect and analyse data gathered in interactive graphical communication experiments. Users of the software are presented with a ‘virtual’ whiteboard that is connected to another user’s whiteboard to create a shared graphical communication space. In addition to logging all drawing activity between the pair and providing tools for the analysis of this data, the software can manipulate the layout and the degree of interactivity of the drawing being exchanged. The program can also be used to setup and manage multiple simultaneous shared whiteboard connections and subject groupings.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ERSC/EPSRC PACCIT initiative through the grant MAGIC: Multimodality and Graphics in Interactive Communication (L328253003). The support of ATR Media Information Science Laboratories has also been critical to the development of work in this paper.

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  1. Healey, P., Swoboda, N., Umata, I., Katagiri, Y.: Representational form and communicative use. In Moore, J., Stenning, K., eds.: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (2001) 411–416

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  2. Healey, P., Swoboda, N., Umata, I., Katagiri, Y.: Graphical representation in graphical dialgoue. To appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies on Interactive Graphical Communication (forthcoming)

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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, London, UK

    Patrick G. T. Healey & James King

  2. DEIMOS Space S.L., Sector Oficios 34, Tres Cantos, 28760, Madrid, Spain

    Nik Swoboda

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  1. University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Mary Hegarty

  2. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Bernd Meyer

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, 107 Dunstan Hall, 36849, Auburn, AL, USA

    N. Hari Narayanan

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Healey, P.G.T., Swoboda, N., King, J. (2002). An Environment for Conducting and Analysing Graphical Communication Experiments. In: Hegarty, M., Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46037-3_12

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