Creativity Support and Multimodal Pen-based Interaction
Ilhan Aslan, Katharina Weitz, Ruben Schlagowski, Simon Flutura, Susana Garcia Valesco, Marius Pfeil, Elisabeth André · 2019
Creativity as a skill is associated with a potential to drive both productivity and psychological wellbeing. Since multimodality can foster cognitive ability, multimodal digital tools should also be ideal to support creativity as an essentially cognitive skill. In this paper, we explore this notion by presenting a multimodal pen-based interaction technique and studying how it supports creativity. The multimodal solution uses micro-controller-technology to augment a digital pen with RGB LEDs and a Leap Motion sensor to enable bimanual input. We report on a user study with 26 participants demonstrating that the multimodal technique is indeed perceived as supporting creativity significantly more than a baseline condition.