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My heartfelt condolences and best wishes to Marc’s family. OK, let’s talk Tablet PC!. Fishing for Information. InkSeine is a tool for thought that lets you fish for useful information directly from your ink notes. Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine .
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Fishing for Information InkSeine is a toolforthought that lets you fish for useful information directly from your ink notes. Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine.
What is a Tool for Thought? • A designer’s work space
InkSeine seeks to enable creation of Tablet PC notes like this notebook…
Ink • Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas
Ink + Search • Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas • Search: Access supporting materials & documents
Ink + Search + Gather • Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas • Search: Access supporting materials & documents • Gather: Integrate what you find with your notes.
Ink + Search + Gather • InkSeine is Ink + Search + Gather • A virtuous cycle that unifies these elements in a fluid user experience uniquely suited to pen interaction
A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.
A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.
A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.
A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.
Handwriting Correction • Employs CueTIP(Shilman, Tan, & Simard) • Unified w/ query revision • Split / Join gestures • quick & easy repair of segmenation
Status • Over 550 Microsoft-internal installs • Feedback mostly positive, not ON killer, ~160 issues, bugs, feature asks identified
Send us your feedback! • “Your program stinks, and so do you!” • Another satisfied user [when] told that a new feature he had requested would be prohibitively difficult… • Programming as if People Mattered, Borenstein, p. 99 • kenh@microsoft.com
DON’T MODE ME IN Rogue’s Gallery of Inhuman Factors World Tour 1981 INSERT REPLACE DELETE SEARCH FILE NAME? Modes… a necessary evil Larry Tesler, BYTE, 1981 front Ken’s Xmas wish: A good bezel button for ink/gesture mode switching on the left… back
DON’T RECOGNIZE ME! InkSeine: No Fancy Pants Recognition. Ink is always treated as ink Ken H., 2007 Rogue’s Gallery of Inhuman Factors ‘Hands off my Ink!’ Reunion Tour 2005 TAP + HOLD SCRATCHOUT TO DELETE ‘SMART’ SELECTION TIP IN-AIR GESTURE
In-place search • Use existing ink to initiate a search • Stay in the flow of inking ‘n’ thinking • Queries stay with the ink • Preserve what/why context of searching • Interleaves search with other tasks • Jot notes while you search, flip pages, abandon & resume searches… • Tightly couple queries with app content • Results of queries become new content