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Comment on Paper: Pen + Touch = New Tools by Conference Notes: Workshop on the Impact of Pen & Touch Technology on Education (WIPTTE) | CID Spotlight

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:39:58 +0000

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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:39:55 +0000

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Comment on GroupTogether — Exploring the Future of a Society of Devices by Conference Notes: Workshop on the Impact of Pen & Touch Technology on Education (WIPTTE) | CID Spotlight

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:39:52 +0000

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Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:05:58 +0000

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Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:03:01 +0000

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Comment on Paper: Informal Information Gathering Techniques for Active Reading by Ken

Ken — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:45:49 +0000

Broadly speaking, it does fit into that vision, but in terms of our thought processes and how we actually went about the work, we were much more tightly focused on how people read, how they want to mark-up and repurpose content, and some of the failings that we perceived in current technologies and interaction techniques to effectively support those behaviors.

But as it so happens, having more than one small piece of glass in front of you really tends to help out with this.

When people are reading content deeply, to understand and crystallize and forge new viewpoints, the research shows very clearly that they almost always have more than one reading surface — whether that be a piece of paper, a book, a magazine, a notebook page, or a computer screen — close at hand, and they frequently move back and forth between them.

So I guess that’s what “three screens and a cloud” sounds like when it comes from a researcher rather than a smooth, refined marketing type

Comment on Paper: Informal Information Gathering Techniques for Active Reading by garabedyan

garabedyan — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:33:52 +0000

Long ago I was at a Microsoft presentation in Sofia, Bulgaria. The lecturer mentioned the 3 screens vision of Microsoft: the cell phone, the PC monitor and the TV and how Microsoft struggles to make the user experience in these 3 devices the same. This paper and work seems to be following that direction.

Comment on Paper: InkSeine: In Situ search for active note taking by Saturday morning coffee [July 21 2012] « Jerry Fahrni

Saturday morning coffee [July 21 2012] « Jerry Fahrni — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:07:54 +0000

[...] – Want to know what’s really weird about the Office 2013 Customer Preview? It doesn’t include OneNote MX, which is the Metro-styled version of OneNote for Windows 8. You have to go to the Microsoft app store in Windows 8 and search for it. It’s quite a departure from the Office 2013 apps. It’s designed for Metro, not the standard Windows desktop. The biggest difference is the new radial touch menu (image to the left). I think I’ve seen something like that before……cough…InkSeine!. [...]

Comment on Paper: Informal Information Gathering Techniques for Active Reading by Ken

Ken — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:18:59 +0000

Hi Aman,

These are both good questions. On #1, I would say that with the graphic design and layout used in the current demo video, yes the pocket being in the middle was not ideal. Originally this idea was conceived with dual-screen devices in mind, like my old Codex project, and also in this specific project I would say the graphic design left something to be desired (e.g. the margins in the “gutter” of the e-book between the two screens are way too tight. And a number of test users hence said they would have preferred to have that Pocket allow tucking items along the bottom edge of the screen, for example. I still think the center might work with a re-design, or it could be that on a single-screen slate in landscape mode that the bottom really is best. Honestly it would require further investigation to be sure.

On question #2, let me get back to that one. I’m still planning to do a longer post about this project, but things have been busy, so let me try to bang one out next week instead where I can answer this better than a quick comment here, and give more context to the project as well.

Comment on Paper: Informal Information Gathering Techniques for Active Reading by Aman Parnami

Aman Parnami — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:36:45 +0000

Ken,

I have two questions:

1) I wonder if you got any feedback about pockets being a distraction for active reading and if you explored other means of presenting same information.
2) Why do we still rely on translation of actions performed during reading a physical book to the digital book instead of providing the best means afforded by the technology today? I am referring to the gesture used for changing the page and the animation of the page simulating physical world.