The authors describe integration of and multiple uses for the tablet PC (TPC) in MIS classes. These uses are geared toward enhancing student learning through the TPC rather than learning how to use a specific tool. These technologies are used in a database course and an information security course to enhance student learning by having students participate in drawing entity relationship diagrams...

The Onset of Semantic Web technology have promised a new vision of Personal Information Management (PIM). With the advent of Pen-based computing, PIM faces new challenges: usability and flexibility are important constraints in the pen based environment. We present our system of Semantic Pen an augmented pen based PIM system that merges the efficiency of semantic web with the usability of pen ba...

We present a low-cost, portable, wireless diffuse optical imaging device. The handheld device is fast, portable, and can be applied to a wide range of both static and dynamic imaging applications including breast cancer, functional brain imaging, and peripheral artery disease. The continuous-wave probe has four near-infrared wavelengths and uses digital detection techniques to perform measureme...

Creating software that can understand the range of sketches that people produce is a challenging problem. One source of difficulty is that people often include textures in their drawings. This paper shows how to use Ising models, a technique from computer vision at the level of pixels, for decomposing digital ink into a hierarchy of edge-based structures that provide more concise qualitative re...

NotePals is an ink-based, collaborative note taking application that runs on personal digital assistants (PDAs). Meeting participants write notes in their own handwriting on a PDA. These notes are shared with other participants by synchronizing later with a shared note repository. NotePals is distinguished by its lightweight process, interface, and hardware. This paper describes the design and ...

MEMS, or Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems are chips that are made in semiconductor fabs that combine electronic functions and mechanical actions. MEMS devices can sense and control making them valuable for numerous applications that include ink jet printers, automotive motion sensors and even digital projectors. But MEMS can also be used in the medical field to measure blood pressure within the...

This paper presents a method of parameterization for online freehand drawing objects based on a piecewise cubic Bezier curve approximation. The target is to represent sketches in a compact format within a certain error tolerance with lower computation to be practically adaptable for the online graphics input. A set of user’s intended breakpoints in digital ink is firstly produced in terms of pe...

We present a technique for rendering animated 3D models in a Su-Muk painting style with user’s guide. First, a user can sketch directly over 3D models by varying ink and water values. And we simulate the behavior of ink-water directly on 3D model for consistent shade information over 3D models. After simulation, ink and water are spread over a 3D surface appropriately. Second, to achieve a real...

Artists have different parameters to, for example, colour scientists, for considering the quality of the finished image. An analysis of the work is based on an artist's conception of the work and a subjective assessment of print surface, colour and image quality, which although may appear to be based on the same criteria as a reproduction, the impact on the viewer is quite different. This prese...

A colour ink jet printing with improved water fastness property was produced by using of special component in the ink’s formulation. In this study, the water fastness of ink jet prints which used acrylic/nano-silver resin nano-composite ink instead of conventional resin in ink’s formulation was examined. The nano composite resin was prepared via miniemulsion polymerization of acrylate monomers ...