InkKit

Chung, Ronald; Mirica, Petrut; Plimmer, Beryl

doi:10.1145/1073943.1073950

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“…Smart whiteboards let engineers freehand draw while automatically capturing their pen strokes in a digital format [51]- [53] [54]. Tools exist that interpret sketches to detect elements from certain visual notations (UML) [52], [55]- [57]. The general idea is to let engineers draw arbitrary forms and map these to a certain notations, e.g., UML class diagrams.…”

Section: Freehand Sketching On Whiteboards and Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Software Re-Engineering via Freehand Sketches in Virtual Reality

Hoff,

Seidl,

Lungu

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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Re-architecting a software system requires significant preparation, e.g., to scope and design new modules with their boundaries and constituent classes. When planning an intended future state of a system as a re-engineering goal, engineers often fall recur to mechanisms such as freehand sketching (using a whiteboard). While this ensures flexibility and expressiveness, the sketches remain disconnected from the source code. The alternative, tool-supported diagramming on the other hand considerably restricts flexibility and impedes free-form communication.We present a method for preparing the architectural software re-engineering via freehand sketches in virtual reality (VR) that can be seamlessly integrated with the model structure of a software visualization and, thus, also the code of a system, for productive use: Engineers explore a subject system in the immersive visualization, while freehand sketching their insights and plans. Our concept automatically interprets sketched shapes and connects them to the system's source code, and superimposes code-level references into a sketch to support engineers in reflecting on their sketches.We evaluated our method in an iterative interview-based case study with software developers from four different companies, where they planned a hypothetical re-engineering of an opensource software system.

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Section: Freehand Sketching On Whiteboards and Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Software Re-Engineering via Freehand Sketches in Virtual Reality

Hoff,

Seidl,

Lungu

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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“…conveying commands). For example, there have been sketch-based modeling systems [12] and interfaces, for example Teddy [9] and SKETCH [19], as well as numerous academic tools that emulate the classic whiteboard experience, such as Flatland [11], InkKit [6], and Calico [10], to name just a few.…”

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Towards Sketch-based User Interaction with Integrated Software Development Environments

Samúelsson

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2020

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops

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Powerful software tools, such as software development environments, often have complex graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that are not intuitive to handle, especially when performing complex, multistep operations. We hypothesize that sketching could be a more intuitive way of expressing user intentions than navigating nested menus or memorizing keyboard shortcuts to accomplish complex operations. Enabling this vision requires software capable of both allowing the user to sketch anywhere on a GUI, and interpreting those sketches as specific commands to be performed within the integrated development environment (IDE). In this paper, we report on preliminary results of an elicitation study performed to gather insights into how developers would use a sketch-based interface. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interaction techniques; Empirical studies in interaction design; Touch screens; • Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments.

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“…Numerous approaches focus on sketching as a way to create informal models of a software system. These tools primarily emulate the classic whiteboard experience but augment it with digital features, such as helping users to manage drawing space in Flatland [31], shape beautification in InkKit [9], and recording design histories in Calico [24], to name just a few. Other works have expanded the capabilities of traditional sketching tools by providing support for (remote) collaboration on sketches, such as Team Storm [15] or FlexiSketch Team [51].…”

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Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE

Samúelsson

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2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Software engineers routinely use sketches (informal, ad-hoc drawings) to visualize and communicate complex ideas for colleagues or themselves. We hypothesize that sketching could also be used as a novel interaction modality in integrated software development environments (IDEs), allowing developers to express desired source code manipulations by sketching right on top of the IDE, rather than remembering keyboard shortcuts or using a mouse to navigate menus and dialogs. For an initial assessment of the viability of this idea, we conducted an elicitation study that prompted software developers to express a number of common IDE commands through sketches. For many of our task prompts, we observed considerable agreement in how developers would express the respective commands through sketches, suggesting that further research on a more formal sketch-based visual command language for IDEs would be worthwhile. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Interaction techniques; Empirical studies in interaction design; Touch screens; User studies; • Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments.

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InkKit

Cited by 21 publications

References 3 publications

Preparing Software Re-Engineering via Freehand Sketches in Virtual Reality

Preparing Software Re-Engineering via Freehand Sketches in Virtual Reality

Towards Sketch-based User Interaction with Integrated Software Development Environments

Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE

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