For the purpose of improving the usability of an electronic whiteboard in, for example, setting work by a user, an electronic whiteboard (2) of the present invention includes: an event acquisition unit (22, 24) configured to acquire information indicating an object coming into contact with a display (3, 115) and event information such as the coordinates of a contact location; an identifying unit (25, 38) configured to identify whether the contact object is an electronic pen (4) or a user's hand, and identify the event type, such as stroke drawing, UI operation, or gesture operation, from the coordinates of a contact location and the model name of an electronic whiteboard; and a processing unit (26, 27, 32) configured to perform processing on the event the type of which has been identified.