Project Assignment (3000 words)

Which system are you choosing for the project? Why? We are choosing Microsoft Math Solver as our system. This is a new application launched on Dec 6, 2019, and is still under active development, so many interactions are still not polished which allows us to improve it. What specific piece of the system are you selecting? Why? The “draw” tab, it is very hard to write a whole equation on the phone in portrait mode while the application’s support for landscape mode is bad. Summarize and describe the system and the system piece you selected for us so that we can have a basic understanding of your directions. This is a mobile application using machine learning to recognize and solve handwritten math problems. The “draw” tab includes a fixed canvas to write the equation by hand, a toolbar for drawing tools(pen, eraser, clear, etc.) and an area for the recognized result of the handwriting. Albeit it is very preliminary at this point, what improvements do you anticipate/plan to analyze and design? List at least 3 possible options. Make the canvas scrollable or translatable when the space is not big enough. While sliding on the canvas, let users choose if they want to draw or move the canvas. The eraser now works as a real eraser, we can change its function to clear the whole line once the eraser touches a line.

Provide a link to software, its documentation, and any other relevant resources for us. Here is the link for the application we found on Google Play. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.math Also available for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-math-solver-hw-app/id1483962204