Reading #24 Games for Sketch Data Collection

Summary:

The paper introduces two systems to collect sketching data for research purpose: Picturephone and Stellasketch. The difference between them is that Picturephone is asynchronous game while Stellasketch is a synchronous one.

Picturephone collects long sentences that describe sketches. The system define three and randomly assign one to each user. Draw mode ask user to draw the sketch according to the description. Describe mode asks users to describe a sketch. And rate mode asks user to evaluate each pair of sketches.

Stellasketch is syncrhronous since it gathers short noun-phrase when they are made. Two users plays together without knowing each others work. One draw a sketch based on the nouns and the other describe the drawn sketch with noun-phrase.

Discussion:
This paper makes the collection of data more interesting for participat which is helpful in collecting more appropariate data. It is a good job of HCI. However, we still need to deal with the noise of the data and figure out how to use this date in practice.