Designing the world as your palette

ABSTRACT

"The World as your Palette" is our ongoing effort to design and develop tools to allow artists to create visual art projects with elements (specifically, the color, texture, and moving patterns) extracted directly from their personal objects and their immediate environment. Our tool called "I/O Brush" looks like a regular physical paintbrush, but contains a video camera, lights, and touch sensors. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up colors, textures, and movements of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment. We describe the evolution and development of our system, from kindergarten classrooms to an art museum, as well as the reactions of our users to the growing expressive capabilities of our brush, as an iterative design process.

REFERENCES

• 1: Finlay, V. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. Ballantine Books, 2003.
• 2: Kimiko Ryokai , Stefan Marti , Hiroshi Ishii, I/O brush: drawing with everyday objects as ink, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.303-310, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria [doi>10.1145/985692.985731]
• 3: Waco™. http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities

Keywords:
children, drawing, human-centered design, interaction design, storytelling, tangible user interfaces, usability research, user experience, user interface design, user research, user-centered design, visual design