SOUSA: Sketch-based Online User Study Applet

Although existing domain-specific datasets are readily available, most sketch recognition researchers are forced to collect new data for their particular domain. Creating tools to collect and label sketched data can take time, and, if every researcher creates their own toolset, much time is wasted that could be better suited toward advanced research. We propose, and have built, a general-purpose sketch collection and verification tool that allows researchers to design custom user studies through an online applet residing on our group's web page. By hosting such a tool through our site, we hope to provide researchers with a quick and easy way of collecting data while serving a secondary purpose of creating a universal repository of sketch data that can be made readily available to other sketch recognition researchers.

Authors

Brandon Paulson
Aaron Wolin
Joshua Johnston
Tracy Hammond

Publications

• Paulson, B., Wolin, A., Johnston, J., and Hammond, T. SOUSA: Sketch-based Online User Study Applet. In Proceedings of SBIM, 2008. [PDF]

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