SketchComm: A Tool to Support Asynchronous Communication of Early Design Ideas (2011)

When designers explain their early design ideas to others, they usually use face-to-face communication along with sketches. In practice, however, sometimes face-to-face meet-ings are not possible, and designers have to rely on asyn-chronous communication. Important contextual information that is available in face-to-face meetings often becomes missing in such asynchronous communications, which can lead to confusion and misunderstanding. To address this challenge, we present SketchComm: an enhanced tool to support rich and flexible asynchronous communication of early design ideas. The key of the system is to allow design-ers to capture and communicate important contextual infor-mation to the audience in addition to sketches. A user study with designers and audience demonstrated effectiveness of asynchronous early design communication using Sketch-Comm.

Guang Li, Xiang Cao, Sergio Paolantonio, Feng Tian
http://research.microsoft.com/~xiangc

Видео SketchComm: A Tool to Support Asynchronous Communication of Early Design Ideas (2011) канала Xiang Cao's HCI Research