Authors (old page as appeared in Colorado 1994-1999)
* Mark and Ellen recently moved (September, 1999) from University of
Colorado to University of Washington. Check out the Design Machine
Group
for exciting new projects!
Design Machine Group
Department of Architecture
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5720
mdgross@u.washington.edu
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Design Machine Group
Department of Architecture
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5720
ellendo@u.washington.edu
The Electronic Cocktail Napkin is a pen based drawing environment written in Macintosh Common Lisp. It aims to support designing using hand drawn sketches and diagrams. We want to make it easy to make expressive drawings -- as easy as pencil and paper -- that can also be managed and interpreted by the program. We'd like to take advantage of designers' experience with the rich tradition of drawing and the directness of pencil and paper as well as the symbolic and numeric manipulations that computers make possible. In other words, we want to work with pencil and intelligent paper.
Our goals are:
(1) support designers making hand drawn diagrams and sketches,
(2) support the management of drawings (notebooks, search, tracing)
(3) support interpretation of drawings in context of the design domain
Diagrams and Sketches in Design
Trainable Recognition
Parsing Diagrams
Things that Paper Does Well
Collaborative Design
The Sketchbook
Diagrams to Query Databases
Similarity of Diagrams
Pilot Studies
Stretch-A-Sketch
Napkin with Newton: Distributed Digital Sketchbooks
Napkin with knowledge based Systems: The Right Tool at the Right Time:
An architecture for knowledge based Design Environment Back of An Envelope:
Please send to Mark or Ellen. Thank you!
Currently we are moving and updating our web site so download option is not availabe now. Contact Mark or Ellen if you have questions. Thanks!