Color Revealer

Validation level: 5. CHI, UIST, CSCW and TOCHI paper publication

Color Revealer help users to understand their writing behavior. It captures traces of the user's writing process, modifying hue and intensity as an annotation of users' hesitation and correction.

Publications
Copy Bibtex Jalal, G.; Maudet, N. and Mackay, W. E. Color Portraits: From Color Picking to Interacting with Color. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 4207-4216, ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI '15 , 2015.
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Storyboard of Functions

ColorRevealer changes color and tensity to indicate hesitations and changes hue to review writing progress. When user writes with very little hesitation, the layers behind the text appear as a pale green; when user repeatedly delete and correcte words, the layer turns to blue and purple.

Color Revealer allows users to control the mapping of colors to their writing activities and provides an adjustable timeline that lets them scroll back through earlier stages in the writing process. In above figure, the user needs additional time and has adjusted the time scale accordingly.