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The SketchPad application supports collaboratively sketching out ideas on a shared sketchpad, playing simple board games such as Tic Tac Toe, or letting the user choose an arbitrary image to be annotated.
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This paper presents LightPeers – a new mobile P2P framework specifically tailored for use in a nomadic learning environment. A set of key requirements for the framework is identified based on nomadic learning, and these requirements are used as outset for designing and implementing the architecture and protocols. The main contributions of the Light...
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... step further than simple text messaging is to have the equivalent of a sketchpad for freehand drawing to allow sketching figures or concepts not easily described in text. The Sketchpad application as shown in Figure 5(a) supports exactly this situation where a session peer can make a freehand drawing which is simultaneously shared among all session peers. All peers are allowed to draw on the sketchpad and annotate the figures concurrently supporting collaborative construction of digital material. ...
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... Sketchpad has a series of standard background layouts, e.g., blackboard or whiteboard, but also game boards like Tic Tac Toe is included with the application. The users can also create and apply custom backgrounds, for instance by taking a picture and let it be the new sketchpad background to be collaboratively annotated as seen in Figure 5(b). The custom background is transferred to the other peers which allow the sketchpad application to be used as a platform for simple multiplayer board games as well. ...
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