Ken Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Raman Sarin, Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Michael Shilman &
Desney Tan
oronto
InkSeine : Ink + Seine
-n: a fishing net -v: to fish with a seine
= insanely cool ink search!
InkSeine lets the user fish for useful information directly from ink notes.
Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine.(courtesy Wikipedia)
XLibris—pen-based system for active reading(reading + critical thinking + learning)
InkSeine combines pen-based note taking with searching, linking, collecting & sensemaking:
Sketch designs Reflect on a topic Capture & extend
creative ideas
Ink – excels at capturing user’s thoughts & ideas with minimum distraction from formatting issues
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Search – digging through the file system on a tablet is really a pain Active note taking benefits
from low overhead access to supporting materials & related docs
Focus on personal search, but support Web as well
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Gather – Make it easy to use what you find by pulling content directly into unstructured notes Thumbnail hyperlinks to
documents Clippings from documents Queries that can be revisited
later
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InkSeine unifies these three elements in a fluid user experience that is integrated directly with inking
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Leverage preexisting ink to initiate search No context switch to “search app” – stay in the flow No tedious transcription of text to a “search box”
Queries as first class objects, commingled with ink notes Flag some ink for search for later Visible and salient search history as part of notes Queries can be copied, pasted, moved, etc.
Interleave inking, searching & gathering No barrier between inking / searching – note ideas while
searching, side-by-side searching, span app boundaries for content gathering
Tightly couple queries with application content Queries naturally persist in originating context Easy re-visitation of prior queries Results of queries become new content
Continuum of time cost – can defer at any point: 1 second: Capture thought “I should search on this” 5 seconds: Trigger search & see initial results list 10-20 s: Open a doc from result list or drag result into
notes 20 s-2 minutes:
Scroll through list and inspect details of results Apply filters, revise query Grab a snapshot from a short document Correct occasional ink reco errors – Tablet’s reco is amazingly
good! Longer: sufficient depth for common info needs; not
mired by last 10% of complex queries that require full featured search tools Inspect result documents to see if they meet information needs Sideways searches based on Title, Date, or Author of a result
Existing desktop search tool difficult to use Difficult text entry
Enter and correct text
Existing desktop search tool difficult to use Difficult text entry
Enter and correct text Annoying context switch and flow interruption
Switch among apps and context
Existing desktop search tool difficult to use Difficult text entry
Enter and correct text Annoying context switch and flow interruption
Switch among apps and context Tedious information gathering
Difficult to link to documents and gather pieces of information
Breadcrumb
Query Area(CueTIP)
Result List
Result List
Focus Result
Filters
Tap - Select Cross – Multi-select
Disjunctive cross – Multi-select Cross & Turn Right – Exclude
Selection
Correction
Search
Gesture discovery problem
Highlighter hints
Context preservation & occlusion problem
Smart positioning of search panel
Recognition problem for out-of-vocabulary words
Personalized vocabulary from desktop search indexUIST
List?, Dist?, Gist?, Mist?, Hist? ?
In situ search experience
Tailored to pen input
Optimum workflow / maximum flexibility
Multiple ways to gather content
Minimize search screen real estate
Span application boundaries
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