Instant Seat Mapping for Student Note Sharing Process

We have been experimenting with Anoto-Pens to immediately monitor the progress of all students during a lecture. In our previous experiments, the teacher had to determine, in advance, the mapping between student seat positions and his/her digital pen IDs. To resolve this issue, we propose an instant seat-mapping method utilizing student signatures. When a student writes his/her name on a mapping sheet, the system connects the student´s seating position with the pen ID. We confirmed the effectiveness of this method by conducting an experimental lecture at an elementary school. Our method was found effective even while teaching younger schoolchildren.