Title :
Bringing the common whiteboard into the digital age
Author_Institution :
Virtual Ink, Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
Most of us have attended a lecture or a meeting in which a whiteboard was an integral part of the learning and communication process. Whether you are an educator explaining some finer point of a lesson or you are simply conveying an idea to a colleague, whiteboards provide a way to augment the fidelity of your communication. This is particularly true when text alone will not do the trick. Wouldn´t it be great if the common dry-erase whiteboard could digitally store all your handwritten text and sketches? How about if you could engage in the same free-style, creative, problem-solving discourse with other participants who are not in the same room with you? What if you could review the notes written on a whiteboard from a meeting that you could not attend?
Keywords :
business data processing; educational computing; multimedia systems; digital whiteboard; educational computing; lecture; meeting; multimedia; text; Electromechanical devices; HTML; Hardware; History; Markup languages; Navigation; Personal communication networks; Photography; Plastics; Portable computers;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE