my heartfelt condolences and best wishes to marc’s family

• My heartfelt condolences and best wishes to Marc’s family.

• OK, let’s talk Tablet PC!

Fishing for InformationInkSeine 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 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.

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

– kenh@microsoft.com

Happy Holidays!

Extra slides

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DON’TMODE 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…

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InkSeine: No Fancy Pants Recognition. Ink is always treated as ink

DON’TRECOGNIZE

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