Reading #28: iCanDraw? – Using Sketch Recognition and Corrective Feedback to Assist a User in Drawing Human Faces

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Summary:
This paper introduces a system that can help novices to draw people's faces. This is done by giving direction and feedback to users and help them to imitate the original image. This system first use a face recognition to generate some features of the face image. It use sketch recognition to compare the sketch with the undergoes image modle. According to the developing cycle and user studying, this paper proposed 9 design principles to in order to offer useful intructions to users. User studies show the system is helpful for naive users to draw faces with the help of step by step instruction.
Dicussion:
It is a good example of Human Computer Interface which shows the importance of interaction between users with system. This paper also focus on the convinience when using the system by dealing with the problem of "when to show the information" and " what information to show." On this aspect, this paper remind me of the paper of "Those looks similar"