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Power tools and composite tools: integrating automation with direct manipulation

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This paper describes a drawing system that incorporates two novel interaction techniques based on analogies to physical tools. Power tools add limited autonomy in the form of rotators and movers for automated circular, linear, and Bezier-curve movement. Composite tools are user-constructed combinations of existing tools to create new functionality.

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    IUI '03: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
    January 2003
    344 pages
    ISBN:1581135866
    DOI:10.1145/604045
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    1. drawing environments
    2. tools

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