DrawTalking: Building Interactive Worlds by Sketching and Speaking
Karl Toby Rosenberg, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Haijun Xia, Ken Perlin
2024Year
19Citations
4Top-tier citations
Abstract
We introduce DrawTalking, an approach to building and controlling interactive worlds by sketching and speaking while telling stories. It emphasizes user control and flexibility, and gives programming-like capability without requiring code.
An early open-ended study with our prototype shows that the mechanics resonate and are applicable to many creative-exploratory use cases, with the potential to inspire and inform research in future natural interfaces for creative exploration and authoring.
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