Authors: Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Coddington, Jenny Rodenhouse, Andy Wilson, Hrvoje Benk and Bill Buxton
Author Bios:
Ken Hinckley is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. The thrust of his research is to enhance input vocabulary and incorporate the use of computational devices and user interfaces.
Koji Yatani got a PhD at University of Toronto. During the course of his PhD, he worked with Prof. Khai N. Truong on the Dynamic Graphics Project. He has now joined the Human-Computer Interaction group at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing.
Michel Pahud has a PhD in parallel computing from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He now works at Microsoft Resarch.
Nicole Coddington is a Senior Interaction Designer at HTC. In the past she has worked as a Senior Interaction Designer for Microsoft. Her specialties inclue NUI Interaction Design.
Jenny Rodenhouse is a Designer working for Microsoft in Seattle. Her current position is Experience Designer II at the Xbox Interactive Entertainment Division in Microsoft.
Andy Wilson is a senior researcher at Microsoft. His research includes working on applying sensing techniques to enable new styles of HCI.
Hrvoje Benko is a researcher at the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. His research interests are related to novel surface computing technologies and their impact on HCI.
Bill Buxton is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. He is an advocate of innovation, design, consideration of human values, capacity, and culture in the conception, implementation, and use of new products and technologies. His teachings, research, talks and papers reflect these ideals.
Presentation Venue: This paper was presented at UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology.
Summary Section:
Paper Hypothesis: The paper advocates a "division of labor" based on authors explorations, between pen and touch. They derive a system from these tools where the pen writes, touch manipulates and the combination of both produces new tools.
How the hypotheis was tested: The authors designed a study with a paper notebook to research on how people work with physical tools and pieces of paper. They asked the participants to illustrate their ideas for a short hypothetical film by pasting these pieces on a notebook. Then, they observed behaviors that informed them about the specific gestures as well as design attributes of their system.
Result of the hypothesis: The authors have listed the results of eight participants (all right handed) and listed various attributes about their design from B0 to B9 in the paper. These attributes basically provided them with the data of how different users use the pen. For e.g. some "tucked the pen between their fingers" in order to move pieces of papers. Some held the pieces of clippings and stopped writing and some did both simultaneously. These naturally occurring behaviors of users, served to them as the foundation for pen+touch gestures for their system.
Discussion
The paper provides a very intelligent and a smart way of designing a particular system. The authors use an excellent method of observing and video taping the natural tactics of users in order to pursue tasks related to the project. Also, the authors clearly show how the combination of both, pen and touch, can bring about a change in the designs of products.
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