iCanDraw: using sketch recognition and corrective feedback to assist a user in drawing human faces

Paper
Dixon, Daniel, Manoj Prasad, and Tracy Hammond. "iCanDraw: using sketch recognition and corrective feedback to assist a user in drawing human faces." Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2010.
Publication Link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1753459

Summary

This paper applies sketch recognition methods to build an automated tool for learning how to draw. The paper describes two iterations of the work and discusses what works and what didn't, along with a brief description of template matching algorithms used in the interface.

Discussion

Pros

I thought it was an interesting and intuitive domain for applying sketch recognition.

Cons.

I thought the evaluations were simplistic and had a small sample size. They also do not compare their work with any existing work to form some type of baseline for their claims.