Peripheral display of digital handwritten notes

  • Authors:
  • Gary Hsieh;Kenneth Wood;Abigail Sellen

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Microsoft Research Ltd;Microsoft Research Ltd

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a system for the peripheral display of digital handwritten notes, motivated by the joint observation that people seldom refer back to their notes and that these notes often contain useful information. We describe the user-led design of the system, incorporating interviews, paper prototypes, and interactive prototypes. A preliminary field trial of the system indicates that users derive value from the system both for low-distraction reminding and for serendipitous idea generation. These promising initial results suggest significant scope for future work.