Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Coddington, Jenny Rodenhouse, Andy Wilson, Hrvoje Benko, and Bill Buxton
Conference: UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Summary:
This paper is about a new interface that relies on a pen for input as well as touch. They began by observing how people use a pen with a notebook, and went from there. They decided to split up the labor. In general, the pen writes, touch manipulates, and a combination of the two produces other tools. They used a Microsoft Surface and an LED pen for testing. The prototype was developed for mainly note taking, and scrap booking. The paper describes some of the different tools that can be used, like holding a picture and dragging with the pen to create a copy and holding photos and tapping one with the pen to staple them together.
Discussion:
I think that this is a design with a limited distribution base. As there are two sides of the system, it will draw two separate crowds. For people looking to take notes, this system will have to be well made to compete with the systems that have been out for a while, like tablet PCs. For scrap-booking, my guess is that most people who already scrapbook enjoy what they are doing without using a computer. I think that more will buy this product that have not scrap-booked before, because those who have will feel that this takes away from the personalization of what they do. However, that is just my opinion, I could be completely wrong. I do think that some of these techniques could be incorporated into existing systems though.
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