Dual-space drawing: designing an interface to support creative and reflective drawing experiences

Abstract

Dual-Space Drawing is an interface that enables children to express their drawing ideas in both the digital and real worlds. It supports creative and reflective drawing experiences using two layers: a transparent layer and a screen layer. The interface takes a user's drawing movements on the transparent display unobtrusively and then projects the movements on the screen display while presenting the user-selected multimedia components. Dual-Space Drawing lets users interact with motion graphics on a mirror-like display. In the process of designing the self-projected scenes and creating digital contents, children can express themselves and embody their ideas. While designing a digital object, a user's response to the object creates a new relationship to the object in connection with the user's self-reflectionprojection. In this way, Dual-Space Drawing integrates the user's drawing activity with expressive interaction.