Design of a new PumaPaint interface and its use in one year of operation

The PumaPaint project is an online robot that allows World Wide Web users to remotely create original artwork. The original site located at Wilkes University operated from June of 1998 to March of 2000 with approximately 25,000 unique-addressed machines downloading the interface to produce about 500 canvases. The new site at Roger Williams University opened to the public in August of 2002. After noticing that over fifty-percent of the machines downloading the interface were located outside of the United States we decided to create a more elegant and intuitive interface aimed at users from varied countries and varied ages. This work addresses issues, concerns, and resolutions developed to provide this updated interface. The current site was updated integrating this new interface in November of 2002 and evaluation of the interface is currently underway.