Proceedings of the Seventh Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium

These proceedings represent the seventh year of Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Started in 2004, SBIM provides a unique venue for researchers, students and practitioners interested in sketch-based techniques to interact with one another, share lessons learned, show new results and discuss open issues. It continues to be a forum for the HCI community to present their latest work on 2D or 3D sketch-based interfaces and recognition technology and for the computer graphics community to present their latest work on sketch-based modeling. Last year, SBIM was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2009. This year, SBIM is in Annecy, France for the second time, in conjunction with the Annecy Animation Film Festival. This year also marks the second time that SBIM is a symposium instead of a workshop. We had 36 paper submissions this year, which is up from the 29 submissions we had last year, but on par with previous SBIM workshops. Each paper was double blind reviewed by at least three members of our international program committee and we were able to accept 20 of them for the symposium. As in previous years, the quality of the submitted papers was strong, resulting in a high acceptance rate, a testament to those researchers who work in this field. The papers in these proceedings present a mix of innovative ideas in sketch recognition, 3D modeling, and sketch-based interface usability.