We present skWiki, a web application framework for collaborative creativity in digital multimedia projects, including text, hand-drawn sketches, and photographs. skWiki overcomes common drawbacks of existing wiki software by providing a rich viewer/editor architecture for all media types that is integrated into the web browser itself, thus avoiding dependence on client-side editors. Instead of files, skWiki uses the concept of paths as trajectories of persistent state over time. This model has intrinsic support for collaborative editing, including cloning, branching, and merging paths edited by multiple contributors. We demonstrate skWiki’s utility using a qualitative, sketching-based user study.

The skWiki project was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation under award #1249229.

2015

Zhenpeng Zhao, William Benjamin, Niklas Elmqvist, K. Ramani (2015): Sketcholution: Interaction Histories for Sketching. In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 82 pp. 11–20, 2015. (Type: Article | Abstract | Links | BibTeX)

2014

Sriram Karthik Badam, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani (2014): Tracing and Sketching Performance using Blunt-Tipped Styli on Direct-Touch Tablets. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 193–200, 2014. (Type: Inproceeding | Abstract | Links | BibTeX)
William Benjamin, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Devarajan Ramanujan, Niklas Elmqvist, SVN Vishwanathan, Karthik Ramani (2014): Juxtapoze: supporting serendipity and creative expression in clipart compositions. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 341–350, 2014. (Type: Inproceeding | Abstract | Links | BibTeX)
Zhenpeng Zhao, Sriram Karthik Badam, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Deo Gun Park, Niklas Elmqvist, Lorraine Kisselburgh, Karthik Ramani (2014): skWiki: A Multimedia Sketching System for Collaborative Creativity. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1235–1244, 2014. (Type: Inproceeding | Abstract | Links | BibTeX)