A research paper detailing the release of the 12Pixels drawing system in the Japanese market. The paper was presented at Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki and was awarded the Best Presentation Award.
12Pixels: Exploring Social Drawing on Mobile Phones (PDF 1.2M). The abstract is as follows:
In this paper we present the design and development of 12Pixels, a novel interface, application, and social web service that allows people to create and share drawings directly from a regular mobile phone. We detail the release of 12Pixels as a service in Japan and analyze trends that emerged from user data collected. Our analysis and insights provide useful ground-level experiences with social drawing and mobile content creation.
May 2010