Tablet PC Workshop

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Tablet PC Workshop

• Group A
• Researchers
• 7/20/2005

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Progress Since Last Year

• Good discussion between interaction researchers
  and recognition researchers
• UIST
• AAAI Workshop
• ICMI
• Eurographics Workshop

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How About Next Year?

• Vision of new style of computing
• Speculate about Killer Apps that will drive it
• Steps to achieve that
• Not thinking about "PEN" computing
• Move to MultiModal interfaces
• Multi points of contact
• Not thinking about "text"

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Research Themes

• Taking advantage of multiple modalities
• Switching between pen Keyboard
• Fast Data Input
• Recognition/Analysis of stuff other than text
• Drawings and shapes
• Math

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Research Themes (contd)

• Interfaces that adapt
• To input context
• To users' tasks/language
• Designing interfaces with intelligence
• Dealing with system mistakes as systems get more
  intelligent

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Research Themes (contd)

• New Metaphors (beyond extending pen paper)
• Give Interfaces "warmth" (Architecture)
• Beautification of handwriting
• Merging Ink Existing Apps

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Tablet Interface Research Obstacles

• Tablet interfaces need work Whos the culprit?
• No one? (research needs to trickle down)
• Microsoft?
• Researchers?
• Collaboration between MSR Academia
• Too much work to build complete apps
• Needed for ecologically valid assessments
• Can't modify office