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.
What is a Tool for Thought? – A designer’s work space
Richard Banks’ Notebook
Mixed notes & ref images
Beautiful visual collages
Annotations, Inspirations, Fun!
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 pen gestures give quick access to rich search functionality.
Some ways I use InkSeine
Collaborate
Project “Folder”
Web Launch Pad + Note Pad
Mock up w/ Clippings
Track Progress
Review & Mark up
Compile
Illustrated Tour
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 –
Happy Holidays!
Extra slides
44 DON’T MODE ME IN Rogue’s Gallery of Inhuman Factors INSERT REPLACE DELETE SEARCH FILE NAME? World Tour 1981 front back Modes… a necessary evil Larry Tesler, BYTE, 1981 Ken’s Xmas wish: A good bezel button for ink/gesture mode switching on the left…
45 InkSeine: No Fancy Pants Recognition. Ink is always treated as ink DON’T RECOGNIZE ME! Rogue’s Gallery of Inhuman Factors TAP + HOLD SCRATCHOUT TO DELETE ‘SMART’ SELECTION TIP IN-AIR GESTURE ‘Hands off my Ink!’ Reunion Tour 2005 Ken H., 2007
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