Pen and paper are powerful tools for visualizing designs, penning music, and communicating through art and written language. This pairing provides many benefits—it is mobile, flexible, and robust. Our use of paper has even adapted to fit into today's electronic workplace. We print electronic documents so that we can annotate them. We scribble meeting notes on pads, before we type them up and email them to our colleagues. We sometimes attach sticky notes to our LCD monitors, because writing down a to-do can be faster than entering it into our online task list.
My work explores how we can combine the power of pen and paper with the benefits of computation, including search, remote collaboration, and data storage. In this talk, I will discuss the impact that this will have on end users and the software developers that will have to create these applications. First, I will describe our observational study of field biology researchers, one example of a community that will benefit from this technology. Second, I will present a set of interactions to demonstrate the potential of pen-and-paper computing. Finally, I will describe a toolkit architecture and development environment that will enable programmers to create these applications.
Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and PC
Ron B. Yeh, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
ronyeh
cs.stanford.edu
Seminar on People, Computers,
and Design
Stanford University October 5, 2007
Ron Yeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University. He studies Human-Computer Interaction, and is advised by Scott Klemmer. He has also worked closely with Andreas Paepcke and Terry Winograd. Much of his work is part of BioACT, which contributes new technology approaches for field biology researchers. He received his B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2001.
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