Sharon Oviatt is an internationally accomplished professor of Computer Science, Psychology and Linguistics who has dedicated many years of work to human computer interface and human-centered design. With over 150 published scientific papers she is the thought leader in multi-modal computer input and it’s impact on your performance. Now if you’re wondering what multi-modal or multi-sensor …Read more
The Pen is mightier than the keyboard! Write your notes to remember them
Out of the enormous body of research on the effect of longhand notetaking on memory and cognition, one study gained quite a bit of attention in around 2014. The paper is called, “The pen is mightier than the keyboard” and its author was a graduate student at Princeton – Pam Mueller. She worked on this …Read more
Low Formality Thinking – The Impact of Pen Use
Over the last 50 years there have been dozens of scientific studies conducted on handwritten notetaking, especially in education settings. In fact, there are so many papers on the benefits handwriting, that it is hard to know where to start. In the last article in this series, I mentioned Travis Smith. Travis was a former …Read more
How to Video Conference and Take Notes on your Surface Simultaneously
Now that we’re all on Zoom or Teams for our meetings, how do you write notes with the Surface Pen when you need to use the inbuilt webcam for your call? Because in order to take effective notes on Surface, you need to have the device flat, hand resting on the screen – and that …Read more
Enter Data in Excel with your Pen
Pen and paper is such a simple and easy way to capture data . It’s age old, tried and tested. But you run into issues, when it comes to working with the data that you collect. Using pen and paper to capture data means that to work with it you’ll need to re type it …Read more
