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Here is some video that related on how they present Chinese Calligraphy other than the formal writing.

Other than just using tablet, there are lots more creative way to present the Chinese Calligraphy.

Sound Calligraphy

 Kung Fu Calligraphy

Water Calligraphy

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The PENPOWER Diamond Jr. is ultra-modern design touch writing pad offers two models for you to choose from: stylish black, and stunning white; and can recognize traditional and simplified Chinese, Hong Kong characters, English, numbers, symbols, Japanese hiragana and katakana. Moreover, it has English-Chinese/Chinese-English real-time online translation and dictionary search functions and allows dial-up connection and e-mail receipt. When an e-mail is received, it notifies you with music/a flash of light.

This company actually have come out with lots of device that allow us to write on it. The size of the device usually is small which allow us to bring it everywhere and we can learn everywhere.

For more detail, please click here.

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Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope. 

 

 

Ah, now this is the spirit. Rather than concocting yet another handheld tablet that's good for nothing more than checking email and wowing onlookers, designers Soonkyu Jang, Chung Lee and Yonghuk Yim have come together to put linguists on the front burner once again. This here touchscreen concept is a calligraphy board that enables you to practice your stroke without ruining reams of paper and blasting through countless bottles of ink. Initially, at least, the board would only come loaded with teaching tools for the Korean language, but you know Leapfrog could hook this thing up with Lithuanian, Maltese and Slovak should it ever get involved.

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Chinese Calligraphy Tablet

A very similar idea and concept with my FYP title. It also is using tablet to teach those who don't know Chinese Calligraphy with the interaction between the device. And this device is actually fully build by the student while not just using the common tablet which can be found in the market.

It was developed by a design courses student called Daniel Yoon who currently now working as a product designer at LDA (www.lumdesign.com), which is a product design consultancy, located in Irvine California. This work shown is from the days he as a student at Art Center College of Design - Pasadena, CA.

The goal was to create a multi user interface device that was touch based. He decided to develop a system that would teach users how to write Chinese Calligraphy for Chinese Americans. The reason for this is that most of Chinese Americans he have met here in the USA, know how to speak mandarin/Cantonese, but did not know how to read or write.


The user can use the system in 2 ways. 
1. Learn from the device
2. Learn with another person (father, grandparent, or friend)

When learning with the device alone, one half of the screen would show a character being written with all of the proper brush strokes being illustrated. The second half of the screen(the user's half) would
then be for the user to copy the same brush strokes that was being written by the device. As the student becomes more advanced, they can then transition into learning sentences.

As for the actual device itself, it is basically a tablet PC with a touch based interface. Two brush tipped stylus' are included with the system.

The form itself was derived from "brush strokes" as the shape resembles the tapering line weight effect of written characters.



The device can be used either flat, or propped up.  In the up position it can display previous work that the user is proud of.

This is the final out come.

For more detail, please click here.