Spaceink: Making space for in-context annotations

H Romat, E Pietriga, N Henry-Riche… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and …, 2019dl.acm.org
When editing or reviewing a document, people directly overlay ink marks on content. For
instance, they underline words, or circle elements in a fgure. These overlay marks often
accompany in-context annotations in the form of handwritten footnotes and marginalia.
People tend to put annotations close to the content that elicited them, but have to compose
with the often-limited whitespace. We introduce SpaceInk, a design space of pen+ touch
techniques that make room for in-context annotations by dynamically refowing documents …
When editing or reviewing a document, people directly overlay ink marks on content. For instance, they underline words, or circle elements in a fgure. These overlay marks often accompany in-context annotations in the form of handwritten footnotes and marginalia. People tend to put annotations close to the content that elicited them, but have to compose with the often-limited whitespace. We introduce SpaceInk, a design space of pen+touch techniques that make room for in-context annotations by dynamically refowing documents. We identify representative techniques in this design space, spanning both new ones and existing ones. We evaluate them in a user study, with results that inform the design of a prototype system. Our system lets users concentrate on capturing feeting thoughts, streamlining the overall annotation process by enabling the fuid inverleaving of space-making gestures with freeform ink.
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