Human Interface and Applications on IdeaBoard

This paper describes a new style of human interface and several applications on an interactive dynamic whiteboard. If current GUIs are just expanded to the whiteboard size, the teacher would have to frequently move from side to side and stretch their hands from edge to edge, as well as the teacher’s body would cover the board. In order to avoid these problems, operability from an arbitrary standing position of the teacher with a reasonable amount of hand movement, thus no hiding of the board by the body, and easy operations by electronic markers have been sought. Moreover, various applications have been prototyped. A programming education system is one of these, where the teacher writes a program on the board and can have it recognized, compiled and executed in front of the students. Another is an arithmetic education system where children write arithmetic equations on the board and the system answers them.