Paper Review #19: Tahuti

1. Paper Bibliography

• Title: Tahuti: A Sketch Recognition System for UML Class Diagram

• Authors: Hammond, Tracy, and Randall Davis.

• Publication: AAAI Spring Symposium on Sketch Understanding. Vol. 3. No. 2. 2002.

2. Summary

• A Dual view, multi-stroke sketch recognition 
• Sketch freedom
• Taget application: UML diagram
• Focus on geometric properties

3. Terminology

• [WIKIPEDIA] Wizard of Oz experiment:
• a Wizard of Oz experiment is a research experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that subjects believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated or partially operated by an unseen human being. 

4. Details

• Multi- layer framework

5. Evaluation

• Scale 0 to 5
• A) A paint program
• B) Rational Rose
• C) Tahuti in interpreted view
• D) Tahuti in drawn view
• Result
• Drawing 
• A: 2.25, B: 1.75, C: 4.375, D:3.1
• Editing
• A: 1.65, B.1.925, C: 4.825, D: 2.6