A Language-Learning Support System with a Handwriting-Based Communication Interface

In this paper, we present a language-learning support system using an interactive whiteboard on a mobile touch device. Using this system, a teacher and learner participate in an online language class by sharing voice and handwriting information. Each lesson is recorded as movie-like content in a cloud server, and the learner can review the lesson immediately or later by re-playing the recorded lesson content. In this study, we incorporate the scalable vector graphics (SVG) format to represent handwritten information for sharing during the online lesson. We also examine the basic network performance of our method using a prototype system with several experiments.