CogSketch
People sketch to work through ideas and to communicate, especially when dealing with spatial matters. Software that could participate in sketching could revolutionize spatial education, and provide a new kind of instrument for cognitive science research, as well as being an important scientific advance in its own right. Our goal is to do the research and development needed to create a sketch understanding system that can be used as an instrument for cognitive science research and as a platform for educational software. This system, called CogSketch, will be one of the products of the Center. Our vision is that, in ten years or less, sketch-base educational software can be as widely available to students as graphing calculators are today. To achieve this vision will require tight collaboration between the AI researchers on the CogSketch development team and psychologists, learning scientists, and educators.
Main Project Page: http://www.silccenter.org/projects/cogsketch_index.html
System Requirements:
- Hardware: Tablet PC preferred, but not required. If you are using a desktop or a traditional notebook, we highly recommend adding an inexpensive Wacom tablet, because you will find it a lot easier to draw with a pen than with a mouse.
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista. It should still run on Windows 2000 but that has not been tested.
- RAM: At least 1GB, 2 GB preferred.
- Disk Space: At least 900 MB free disk space is required.
CogSketch, version 1.03
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full installer for version 1.03 [7/14/2008]
- The above link will take you to the form required to download the installer for
the latest version of CogSketch
- User Manual (1.0 MB) [1/17/2008]
- The User Manual is included in the installer above — this link is just
for those who would like to look at the manual without installing CogSketch.