Abstract
With the aid of digital pen and paper technologies, information written on paper can be made available digitally without an intermediary transcription step. This creates opportunities to harness paper notes in ways that are only possible with digital systems. We report on the outcomes of a user study on incidental paper-based notetaking that examined, not only the forms of notes that users take, but also if and how these are later used. Our aim was to establish how useful existing digital pen and paper solutions would be in such settings as well as informing the design of new solutions.
Highlights
Information workers often rely on paper-based notetaking to record information in mobile settings as well as in situations where a certain degree of spontaneity is required [2]
Entire pages or parts of paper notes are captured as digital ink data and optionally transformed into digital text based on handwriting recognition
Based on our own experiences of developing a wide variety of tools and applications for digital pen and paper solutions, our goal was to identify aspects in paper-based notetaking that might require special attention to enable the seamless transition from paper notes to digital information
Summary
Information workers often rely on paper-based notetaking to record information in mobile settings as well as in situations where a certain degree of spontaneity is required [2]. Entire pages or parts of paper notes are captured as digital ink data and optionally transformed into digital text based on handwriting recognition. In these solutions, the focus is on what Lin et al [8] have identified as the temporary storage role of paper notes. Specific guidelines in the notetaking process are used to infer the organisation of notes in digital space. These guidelines can either be inspired by certain observed notetaking habits or be driven by features of the technology used, such as handwriting and gesture recognition accuracy
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