Sketch in Sight

Graphics can enhance the display board of any science fair project but creating them from raw data can be quite a chore for anyone. Not any more if software giant Microsoft has its way. The company is currently developing a prototype of a self sketching whiteboard. The touch screen innovation will allow you to use raw data to formulate tables and charts.

Bongshin Lee, the user interface expert designing the whiteboard, is to demonstrate how preloaded data can be used to to create interactive charts, maps or other diagrams. She hopes to show how the interactive display technology will make it easier to make sense of all the data that is fed into the computer system.

The experimental prototype of the self sketching whiteboard is called SketchInsight. The digital canvas is being used to make sense of the growing amounts of information that is being generated daily in research studies. Once the tool is perfected and developed for commercial use it will beat the current Microsoft Powerpoint application hollow.

As you try and make the display board for your science fair project you will wish that this self sketching whiteboard was already available. It would make the task so much easier.