[AckermanD07]
(*)
Ackerman, Dan
"Band of the Hand; UMPCs reviewed",
crave.cnet.com
- Sony VAIO UX390 UMPC: Note: runs Windows Vista, with Tablet PC software expecting proximity sense, but device has a resistive-film touchscreen digitizer: Shake / Tablet PC Input Panel gesture thus does not work. Lack of proximity cursor makes poor registration accuracy of touchscreen more of a problem.
- OQO Model 2: UMPC running Tablet PC.
- Comments that for UMPC small tablet PC, a 1.5" touch-pad is a better pointing device than a touchscreen or digitizer.
[Adesso06]
(*)
Addeso Inc.
"Cyberpad Digital Notepad and Graphics Tablet",
www.adesso.com
- Digitizer built into clipboard-style device, capture handwriting notes with real ink as electronic ink, notes can be uploaded to computer at later time. Compare with Anoto.
- mentions riteMail, handwriting recogntion with riteShape and riteScript for shape recognition (rectangle, circles, etc.) Automatic data entry using paper forms.
- inkNote, note-taking with electronic ink, "intelligent page break" (compare to Raamsdonk?)
[Argarawala06]
(*)
Agarawala, Anand and Balakrishnan, Ravin
"Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Methaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen",
Proc of CHI 2006, pp 1283-1292
- Toush-senstive (or pen-digitizer) desktop GUI "BumpTop": simulating physical of actual cards, showing 3-D icons being placed in a three-dimensional space. Limited use of gestures: Lasso, which then brings up pie-chart menu. Pressture/tip-force on stylus selects different functionality in operations. Lasso-and-cross: drag through a "widget" which affects what operation is performed when stylus is lifted. Piles of simulated papers and cards: compare with Freestyle at Wang.
[AgrawalSC06]
(*)
Agrawal, Subhash C.; Wimer, Scott M.; Young, Jonathan H.
"Method and System for Detecting Intrusive Anomalous Use of a Software System using Multiple Detection Algorithms",
United States Patent Application 2006/0085854, April 20, 2006
- Cylant detection mechanism for software infection, combining multiple examination methods/models in the analysis. Describes the system call interceptor and "clicks" as datums. Previous Munson work used arbitrary code execution points, rather than system calls.
[Amazon07]
(*)
Amazon.com
"Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device",
www.amazon.com, November 10, 2007
- Electronic book using e-ink display, no stylus or digitizer, small keyboard buttons only
[AmesB06]
(*)
Ames, Ben
"Pam pays Xerox $22.5 million in Patent suit",
MacWorld, June 28, 2006. Available at www.macworld.com
- Unistroke lawsuit between Xerox and Palm / US Robotics / 3Com / ACCESS Co. / PalmSource
[AndersonR07]
(*)
Anderson, Richard; Anderson, Ruth; Davis, Peter; Linnell, Natalie; Prince, Craig; Razmov, Valentin; and Video, Fred
"Classroom Presenter: Enhancine Interactive Education with Digital Ink",
IEEE Computer, September 2007, Vol 40 Number 9 pp. 56..60
- Whiteboard system for use during lectures using Digital Ink (Microsoft term for Electronic Ink). Teacher and students can mark-up comments submitted by student in electronic form. Using note-tacking application from Microsoft on Tablet PC. See also Tront.
[Answers06a]
(*)
Answers.com
"Technology: Graphics Tablet",
www.answers.com/topic/graphics-tablet.html
- Reference to stylus versus puck for tablet: actual source is Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, (c) 1998 The Computer Language Co. Inc. See also topic "mouse - technology": cites mouse data as relative motion only, tablet is absolute.
[Answers06b]
(*)
Answers.com
"Technology: 1988",
www.answers.com
- Scriptel digitizer in 1988
[AppleInsider07a]
(*)
AppleInsider
"Touch sensor firm issues legal warning to Apple over iPhone",
AppleInsider, February 20, 2007: available at forums.appleinsider.com
- Quantum Research threatens infringement patent lawsuit for Apple iPhone. Not clear whether Quantum's UI patens, or multi-touch digitizer technology was involved. See file on Quantum.
[AppleInsider07b]
(*)
AppleInsider
"Apple developing configurable multi-touch gesture dictionary",
AppleInsider, August 2, 2007: available at forums.appleinsider.com
- Apple iPhone patent application for a dictionary of multi-touch gesture/chord input. Compare with chorded keyboard of Buxton?
[AssureTec06]
(*)
AssureTec Systems, Inc.
"AssureTec System: Inovating Technologies",
www.assuretec.com
- Indentification products: mentions Ted Kuklinski/Pencept/Penpad
[BarrettGL06]
(*)
Barrett, Gary L.
"Curriculum Vitae for Gary L. Barrett",
Gary L. Barrett
- Touch International: expert for Agulnick patent
[Bateson06]
(*)
Bateson, Melissa; Nettle, Daniel; and Roberts, Gilbert
"Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting",
Biology Letters, FirstCite Earl Online Publishing, 2006. Available at www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk
- Psychological impact: pictures of eyes over an "honor system" payment box result in greater compliance with social standard to pay
[BellD07]
(*)
Bell, Donald
"Apple iPod Touch - product review",
reviews.cnet.com, September 14, 2007
- Review of iPod Touch. Few mentions of multi-touch gestures from iPhone.
[BenkoH06]
(*)
Benko, Hrvoje; wilson, Andrew D.; and Baudisch, Patrick
"Preceise Selection Techniques for Multi-Touch Screens",
Proc. CHI 2006, April 22-27, 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Two-finger precise positioning by using slider or streatch gestures in multi-touch display. Contrasts with WIMP interfaces. Cites to Buxton early work on two-handed input. Simulates proximity sensing by detecting area of contact (Simulated Pressing SimPress) of fingertip. Dual-finger midpoint to generate an offset cursor, so that finger does not obscure display. Dual finger stretch, one finger points, the other zooms.
[BennetD07]
(*)
Bennet, Drake
"Patently Obvious",
Boston Globe, Sunday, May 6, 2007, page E1
- History of standards for granting of patents, refers to "Hindsight bias" on obviousness
[Berrnier07]
(*)
Berrnier, Marc
"Adventures in Cybersound: Vannevar Bush",
Available at www.acmi.net.au
- Memex *did* reprsesent Hyptertext, but description is not clear. Voder device for speech recognition (concept)
[Blickenstorfer07]
(*)
Blickenstorfer, Conrad H.
"Dell Latitude XT: Dell finally release a Tablet PC convertible",
www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_dell_latitude_xt.html, December 2007
- Announcement of Dell Tablet PC using transparent digitizer tablet component from N-trig
[BostonGlobe06]
(*)
Boston Globe
"Business Notebook: Brighter outlook",
The Boston Globe, Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Page E2
- Nintendo DS hand-held game machine with digitizing tablet
[BostonGlobe07a]
(*)
Boston Globe (from Bloomberg News)
"Microsoft get $1.5b verdict tossed: US judge negates Alcatel-Lucent win in MP3 patent case",
The Boston Globe, Tuesday August 7, 2007, page D2
- Lucent/Microsoft patent dispute concerning MP3 patent licensing. Court rules after jury verdict that Microsoft had a license due to a chain of earlier corporate acquisitions by various parties (Fraunhofer Institute).
[BostonGlobe07b]
(*)
Boston Globe (from Associated Press)
"Amazon.com launches its own e-book reader",
The Boston Globe, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Page C2
- E-ink electronic ink e-book product Kindle. Allows mark-up, but no notation about digitizer or stylus.
[BostonGlobe08a]
(*)
Boston Globe
"Tech Development: Taking creepy out of proximity sensing",
The Boston Globe, Monday, June 9, 2008, page B6
- Electrostatic digitizer proximity sensing in a picture frame: Synaptics.com
[BostonGlobe08b]
(*)
Boston Globe
"Tech Development: HP joins the campaign against keyboards",
The Boston Globe, Monday, June 16, 2008, page B6
- HP TouchSmart display, with integrated touchscreen. Comparison made to One Laptop Per Child PC design with no keyboard, instead second screen which can display a keyboard.
[BoulletM06]
(*)
Boullet, Marc
"Mozilla Firefox Extensions: All-in-One Gesture Extension",
perso.wanadoo.fr/marc.boullet
- Mouse gesture plug-in for Mozilla Firefox web browser. Includes additional mouse extensions using alternative mouse buttons, mouse scrollwheel. Subsumes Mouse Genturs by Optimoz, Rocker naavigation, Autoscrolling. Allows for mouse-gesture customization -- gesture macro definitions?
[Bricklin07a]
(*)
Bricklin, Dan
"Gesture, the iPhone, and Standards: A Developer's Questions",
www.bricklin.com/gestures.htm, 24 October 2007
- Essay by Dan Bricklin on standardization of gestures in pen-computing. Describes special considerations on shape of Tap gesture. Mentions accessibility problems of iPhone and other systems to visually impaired. Flick gestures in PenPoint and on Iphone -- no mention of Microsoft Tablet PC flick gestures. Intellectual property/patent positions on gesture and multi-touch input, including speculation about Bill Buxton and Microsoft on "Multi-touch systems I have known and loved" position on prior art.
[BusinessWire07]
(*)
Business Wire / Gale Group
"N-trig Opens Taiwan Office",
BNET.com, August 20, 2007
- N-trig multi-touch transparent electrostatic tablet digitizer, producting office started in Taiwan
[Buxton06]
(*)
Buxton, William
"Directory of Sources for Input Technologies/Manufacturers Addresses",
www.billbuxton.com
- Adaptive/Assistive technologies, character recognition, Pens, Digitizing Tablets, Eye and Head Movement Trackers, Joysticks, Lightpens, Mice, Stylus Devices, Touch Screen, Haptic Force Feedback devices, etc.
[Buxton07]
(*)
Buxton, William
"Multi-Touch System that I have Known and Loved",
www.billbuxton.com
- Apparently prompted by recent developments such as the iPhone, with multi-touch capabilities. Bill Buxton had done earlier work on two-handed input (see other references). Mentions that touch-screens are not accessible to the blind or visually impaired. Finger on touchscreen obscures more of the view than would a stylus. Cites N-Key rollover in typewriters at multi-touch. First multi-touch system by Nimish Metha using optical digitizer with frosted-glass surface in 1982, "Flexible Machine Interface". Cites 1983 Soft Machines at Bell Labs, but not earlier 1973(?) work by Kaplow, Buxton's own multi-touch tablet 1985, Wacom 1992 tablet that could use both a puck and a stylus.
[CenterForPenCentric08]
(*)
Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing, (Microsoft)
"What is Pen-Centric Computing?",
pen.cs.brown.edu
- Microsoft funding of graphics research group under Andries van Dam at Brown University. Projects as of 2008 include MathPaper two-dimensional mathematics input and gesture/direct manipulation, Lineogrammer sketch recognition / diagram editing, *Pad SDK ink middleware experimental pen-computing UI kit, ChemPad for teaching chemistry and molecular models, MathPad, Music Notepad with twho-dimensional gesture input, Fluid Inking for gesture editing of electronic ink (compare with Van Raamsdonk?), ReMarkable Texts digital note-taking. Devices include pen computers (Tablet PCs), PDAs, electronic whiteboards.
[Chaudhri06]
(*)
Chaudhri, Imruan; Christie, Greg; Ording, Bas
"Virtual Input Device Placement on a Touch Screen User Interface",
United States Patent Application, 2006/0033724 A1, February 16, 2006
- Simulated Devices displayed on a multi-touch touch screen: keyboard, video, folders, etc. Compare with Kaplow and with Buxton.
- Sound mixer / music mixer using touchscreen: Apple Gesture recogition for zoom, pan, rotate, scroll, page turn.
- Confused in some press reports with FTIR / Frustrated Internal Reflection multi-touch input tablet, which came out about the same time from a different group
[Chesnut06]
(*)
Chesnut, Casey
"tabletStrator",
www.mperfect.net/tabletStrator
- Prototype of gesture commands for controlling video player, and electronic ink annotation on video, Windows Media Player on Tablet PC. Gestures include square, left and right semi-circle
- mentions electonic ink to speech translation
[CIC06]
(*)
CIC Corporation
"CIC Company Information",
www.cic.com
- Company information on CIC/Communications Intelligence Corporation: mentions sale of CIC Jot handwriting recognition to PalmSource in 2002 as Graffiti-2
[CITT08]
(*)
CITT Center for Instructional Technology and Training, University of Florida
"Tablet PC Workshop",
www.citt.ufl.edu/training/manuals/TabletPC.pdf, fetched 2008/03/03
- Training manual for Tablet PCs, (physical) power button action can be changed
[CoE08]
(*)
Co, Elise and Pshenkov, Nikita
"Emerging Display Technologies for Organic User Interfaces",
Communications of the ACM, June 2008, Vol 51 No 6; pp 45-ff.
- Organic user interfaces / tangible user interfaces: E-Ink / electronic ink electrophoretic display technology, electroluminescent displays on clothing fabric.
[Decuma07]
(*)
Decuma
"Decuma: Capturing your hand",
www.oresundit.com
- Press information on Decuma handwriting character recognition for Japanese and Chines, using Geometrical Invariant Technology, GIT
- See note on Hermansson. Character recognition for Tablet PCs, PDAs, mobile phones
[Dell07a]
(*)
Dell Inc.
"Dell Latitude XT Tablet",
www.dell.com
- Lap top / slate computer with dual-mode (electrostatic/capacitive) digitizer: for stylus/pen or finger, with proximity sensing. Press reports mention need to add touch-input GUI to Windows
[DenningRA08]
(*)
Denning, Roger A.
"Roger A. Denning, Attorney",
www.fr.com
- Trial lawyer in Lucent/Microsoft involving pen-computing gestures
[Divecha06]
(*)
Divecha, Vic
"The World of Smartboards, Sympodiums is about to change",
mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha
- Commentary on user-interface multi-touch tablet digitizer using FTIR / frustrated internal reflection: Video demonstration
- Some comments are skeptical of utility of multi-touch input
[DRSTacticalSystems07]
(*)
DRS Tactical Systems
"Hammerhead rugged tablet computers",
Product literature on Walkabout ruggedized tablet computers, available at www.drs-ts.com
- Ruggedized tablet PCs with integrated tablet and display: product line originally from Walkabout. Models include both a Pen Tablet PC version (proximity sensing, two-button stylus, electromagnetic?) and touchscreen version (no proximity sense)
[E-Ink05a]
(*)
E-Ink Corporation
"World's First Electronic Paper Watch Demonstrated",
Press Release: www.eink.com
- E-Ink electronic ink product: digital wristwatch with Seiko Watch Corporation
[E-Ink06a]
(*)
E-Ink Corporation
"High Resolution Displays",
Product Information: www.eink.com
- E-Ink electronic ink product: paper-like display at 170 pixels/inch, not a digitizing tablet. Mentions Sony Reader using E-Ink Imaging Film.
[E-Ink06b]
(*)
E-Ink Corporation
"E-Paper de digitale krant op digitaal papier",
Product Information: www.eink.com
- E-Ink electronic ink product: paper-like display at 170 pixels/inch, not a digitizing tablet. IBBT consortium: includes I-merge, Hypervision, Philips, De Tijd (newspaper) for electronic books.
[E-Ink06c]
(*)
E-Ink Corporation
"Ink In Motion",
Product Information: www.eink.com
- E-Ink electronic ink product: paper-like display, not a digitizing tablet. Can show dynamic graphics, use for signage. Hardware from Neolux, Midori Mark or Teraoka business partners.
[Economist07a]
(*)
Economist Magazine
"Computing Section: How Touching: "Haptic" technology is gradually bring the neglected sense of touch into the digital realm",
The Economist Magazine, March 10, 2007, special section
- Article on Haptics: cites Samsung touch-screen phone, SCH-W559; Karon MacLean, researcher at University of British Columbia; Vic Viegas, patents on haptic feedback at Immersion Inc., vibrotactile feedback and VibeTonz (hardware vibration device); Vincent Hayward Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill, Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre of International Society for Haptics; no mention of Bill Buxton
[Egger06]
(*)
Egger, Markus
"Find New Meaning in Your Ink With Tablet PC APIs in Windows Vista",
msdn Magazine, May 2006, pp 91-100
- Microsoft article which used term ink analysis as replacement for gesture recognition or handwriting recognition: describes Windows APIs for ink, mentions lack of APIs for drawing recognition (sketch recognition)
- Some comments are skeptical of utility of multi-touch input
[EMSSoftware08]
(*)
EMS Software
"Lotus 1-2-3 Version Information",
www.oldsoftwareinfo.com
- Version information for Lotus 123 versions: www.oldsoftwareinfo.com sells and collects old versions of software in original form. Lotus 123 for DOS only through 2.2X 1991, first Windows version 1.0 for Windows 9991, first MacIntosh version 1.0 1991, OS/2 version 2.0X, 1993.
[Fingerworks06]
(*)
FingerWorks Inc.
"iGesture Pad Product Information",
www.fingerworks.com
- Multi-touch Touchpad digitizer tablet with built-in gesture recognition: one model shows a numeric touch-pad that appears similar to the Casio PF-8000 calculator. Gestures are relative motions of more than one fingertip, not shapes: MyGesture editor for defining gestures, and setting acceleration thresholds. Devices provided simulated keyboard output, thus could be used to replace keyboards on various systems (compare with Penpad 320?) TouchStream LP appears similar to Reefalo (?).
[FleischmannM07a]
(*)
Fleischmann, Monika; Strauss, Wolfgang; Li, Yinlin; Groenegress, Christoph
"Gesture-based input device for a user interface of a computer",
United States Patent 7,312,788 B2, December 25, 2007
- Hardware patent on electrostatic/capacitive non-contact digitizer, similar in principle to a theremin, to sense in-air gestures. Requires use to stand on on a grounding pad or reference pad. Hardware for iPoint device from Fraunhofer Institut? Includes one claim relating to detecting termination of a gesture by not moving.
[FlippinBits06a]
(*)
Flippinbits.com
"TWiki.Main.DevelopmentToolsList",
www.flippinbits.com
- List of compilers, IDS's, languages, source code, libraries, other software tools for Palm OS Developers
[FlipStart07]
(*)
www.flipstart.com
"Super Compact PC for the Mobile Professional",
www.flipstart.com
- Product information and press information on FlipStart, competitor to OQO UMPC / Tablet PC. Uses small touch-pad rather than a tablet digitizer or touch screen. Also small joystick and thumb wheel.
[FlyWorld07]
(*)
flyworld Inc.
"FLY fusion (TM) Pentop computer: The Ultimate High-Speed homework System",
www.flyworld.com
- Product information: Anoto optical digitizer pen with special paper, software for MP3 player, games, homework application. Electronic ink notetaking, handwriting conversion to digital text via character recognition, FLY World application.
[Fraunhofer06]
(*)
Fraunhofer Institut
"PointScreen: Wie von Zauberhand",
Fraunhofer Magazin, January 2006, pp 16-18.
- (in German) article on Gesture-based wall mounted digitizer (low resolution), which senses hand motions and gestures while standing near a projection screen. Non-contact whiteboard. Sensing is electromagnetic/electrostatic, similar to the Theremin musical instrument
[Fraunhofer08]
(*)
Fraunhofer Institut
"Computer steuern per Fingerzeig / Gesture-driven computers",
Fraunhofer Institute Press Release for CeBIT 2008 exhibition, February 2008
- (in German) GestureID hand gestures, demonstrated at CeBIT exhibition for iPoint Presenter. Mentioned as replacement for touch-screen digitizers at infoterminals (kiosks). Uses optical pattern recognition (machine vision)
[FreehandSystems06]
(*)
Freehand Systems Inc.
"MusicPad Pro Plus product information",
www.freehandsystems.com
- Electronic EBook to display musical scores, page turning controlled by foot padel, allows handwriting stylus to annotate music. Marlin Eller.
[FriedI08a]
(*)
Fried, Ina
"Microsoft to add multitouch interface to Windows 7",
news.cnet.com, May 27, 2008
- Windows 7 Vista will include multitouch, compares with Apple iPod user interface. Shown by Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates at trade show. Gestures include pinching (zoom) and two-finger rotating.
[FriedI08b]
(*)
Fried, Ina
"Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch",
news.cnet.com, May 29, 2008
- Milan code name for "surface computer", Microsoft Surface tabletop PC, using multi-touch input.
[Geekheim06]
(*)
geekheim.de
"Sacha's Pen Computing: Archive for the "Pen Computing" Category",
www.geekheim.de
- Ink Gestures for JumpingMinds : includes single, double and triple flick-like gesture for underline, bold, capitalize: compare with GO PenPoint flick gestures. Left and right flick for indent and outdent, letter P for parapgraph, etc.
- Pen-one biometric pen: includes fingerprint scanner in pen, not signature verification.
- EInk technology for ink display from IRex Technologies
- Photograph of NCR System 3130 tablet/pen computerusing Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing and MS DOS
- Anoto Fly Pentop computer -- marketed as children's educational toy
[GestureTek08a]
(*)
GestureTek
"GestPoint Gesture Recognition fo Presentation Systems",
www.gesturetek.com
- Hand-gesture recognition using video input: commercial product. Described as touch-free gesture input utilizing computer vision and body tracking software to convert simple hand movements into direct mouse control.
[Google08]
(*)
Google Code
"iphone-haptics",
code.google.com/p0/iphone-haptics, 2008
- VibeTonz and vibrotactile haptic feedback project for Apple iPhone, Stephen Brewster Tacton project at U. Glasgow
[Gouy-Pailler07]
(*)
Gouy-Pailler, Cedric; Zijp-Rouzier, Sophie; Vidal, Sylvie; and Chene, Denis
"A Haptic Based Interface to Ease Visually Impaired Pupil's Inclusion in Geometry Lessons",
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services. Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007. ISBM 978-3-540-73282-2, pp 598-606
- Abstract only: use of haptic (force-feedback?) device to enable blind/visually-empaired pupils to learn plane geometry. Suggested using gestures rather than keyboard for input.
[Greene07a]
(*)
Greene, Kate
"Wall-Size Touch Screens: Multi-touch displays advance",
Technology Review, March/April 2007, page 23
- Jeff Han at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, FTIR / frustrated internal reflection multi-touch touch screen. Quotes Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research. Company "Perceptive Pixel".
[Greene07b]
(*)
Greene, Kate
"A Better Touch Screen",
Technology Review, November/December 2007, page 15
- Microsoft/ Mitsubishi rear-mounting touch screens on the back of a large PDA, with transparent images of user's fingers: simulated device only as a research prototype
[Greene07c]
(*)
Greene, Kate
"touch Screens for Many Fingers",
Technology Review, January 18, 2007
- multi-touch digitizer comparison of Jeff Han / Perceptive Pixel (optical frustrated/total internal reflection), Mitsubishi DiamondTouch, and iPhone / Fingerworks
[GRiDBoard06]
(*)
GRidBoard: Rob's GRidBoard
"Rob's GRiDBoard",
www.pd.com/gbmenu.html
- Listing of GRiDPad and similar tablet computers available for sale: drivers, parts, manuals: listing as of Feb 2006
[Griml07]
(*)
Griml, Guy
"Startup has the futre at its fingertips",
HAARETZ on-line magazine, December 14, 2007. www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934096.html
- Press announcement of N-trig touch and stylus electrostatic digitizer, incorporated in Dell Tablet PC. Refered to generally as "multi-touch", not clear that capabilities for detecting two finger touches simultaneouslyis operationa. Original company name for N-trig was "Game Along", founded by Meir Morag.
[HamppA08]
(*)
Hampp, Andrew
"Airports, Malls Get More 'Gesture' Ads: Interactive Video-Out-of-Home Ads let Consumers Play",
Advertising Age, May 8, 2008
- Press article on Reactrix, Monster Media, and GestureTek on gesture input on interactive advertizing: foot-pressture touch pad with foot input
[HeiseMobil07]
(*)
Heise Mobil
"Ultra-Mobile PC: Die naechste Generation [Update]",
Heise Mobil Web magazine: 15.03.2007, 03.03.2007
- UMPC Tablet computers from Gigabyte, Samsung Q1 Ultra 1024x600 LCD, touchscreen. Mentions Windows XP Touchpack user interface
[Heller06]
(*)
Heller, Martin
"UMPCs and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet",
byte.com March 27, 2006
- Comparison of Nokia 770 internet webpad tablet with UMPC Ultra Mobile PC / Tablet PC from Microsoft. Nokia runs Linux, has limited handwriting recognition. Mentions dial keys modified thumb-type soft keyboard on UMPC.
[Hermansson07]
(*)
Hermansson, Per-Olof
"Recognition for Merlin (Swedish) and Gabelsberger (German) Shorthand",
Mass Marketing Software AB, Horred, Sweden. www.massmarketing.se
- Reference to Decuma doing Japanese and Chinese handwriting character recognition with Anoto pen, Decuma then acquired by Canadian company
[Hildreth06]
(*)
Hildreth, Even and MacDougall, Francis
"Multiple Camera Control System",
United States Patent 7,058,204, June 6, 2006
- GestureTek Inc.: Hardware for gesture input: Two video cameras to compare background, to detect hand for hand gesture input. Compare to "put-that-there" system from M.I.T., iPoint from Fraunhofer Institut.
[Hildreth07]
(*)
Hildreth, Even and MacDougall, Francis
"Multiple Camera Control System",
United States Patent 7,227,526, June 5, 2007
- GestureTek Inc.: Hardware for gesture input: Two video cameras to compare background, to detect hand for hand gesture input. Had "presence" zone for detecting when a person was standing in front of a large monitor, and a "gestures" zone for detecting positions of hands during gestures.
[HolmanD08]
(*)
Holman, David and Vertegaal, Roel
"Organic User Interfaces: Designing Computers in Any Way, Shape, Or Form. Displays on real-world objects allow more realistic user interfaces",
Communications of the ACM, June 2008, Vol 51 No 6; pp 48-ff.
- Organic user interfaces / tangible user interfaces: deformable user-input devices, such as foldable paper which is also a display, and responds to folding.
[HOPL08]
(*)
HOPL History of Programing Languages
"Maths input language",
hopl.murdoch.edu.au
- History of two-dimensional mathemathics input languages as programming languages: essentially a short bibliography of papers by Mort. I Bernstein, quotes as saying that real-time / online handwriting recognition is easier than static / OCR character recognition.
[Hotelling06]
(*)
Hotelling, Steve; Strickon, Joschua A.; Huppi, Brian; Chaudhri, Imran; Christie, Greg; Ording, Bas; Kerr, Dunan Robert; and Ive, Jonathan P.
"Gesture for Touch Sensitive Input Devices",
United States Patent Application 2006/0026536 A1, February 2, 2006
- Multi-point multi-finger gestures on a multi-touch tablet: pan, zoom, etc. The examples are more like manipulations of simulated devices than markings: e.g. rotating a wheel. Zoom gesture is to touch two fingers to surface, and move them in or out. Compare? with Bill Buxton simulated devices, or early virtual reality work?
[Hullender07a]
(*)
Hullender, Gregory and Gounares, Alexander
"Ink Gestures",
United States Patent 7,305,630 B2, December 4, 2007
- Ink gestures recognized using Chebychev Polynomials and Bayes net. Refers to gestures including alphabetic characters, and automatic recognition of gesture shape in the midst of text input via handwriting.
- Refers to an ink gesture being included in a stroke: gesture is part of a larger stroke?
- In description, lists example gestures and their semantics: e.g. braces (discontinuous selection), circle-tap, , flick (scroll), double-right-flick for scroll to end, double-left-flick, triple-up-flick, etc. Appears to be same basic set of gestures as Microsoft "Unimplemented Glyphs". Compare with GO/PenPoint flick and other gestures
[Immersion08]
(*)
Immersion Corporation
"MicroScribe Systems: Solutions fo Inspection, Reverse-engineering, and 3D Digitizing",
www.immersion.com
- Mechanical digitizers using multiple-link mechanical arms, articulated-arm digitizers and portable CMMs. Intended for three-dimensionsal / 3D digitizing of engineering objects. Applications also include medical and surgical simulators : digitizers with haptic feedback under the product name CyberForce. Several citations to studies of touchscreens with and without tactile/haptic feedback, and VibeTonz auditory/haptic components for hand-held devices (cell phones, PDAs, etc.)
[iPhoneNews07a]
(*)
iPhone-news.eu
"So funktioniert das iPhone TouchScreen",
http://iphone-news.eu, July 4, 2007
- Multi-touch touch screen on on iPhone consists of front-mounted capacitive/electrostatic touch panel in front of the display: shows additional protective layer in front of the capacitive touch panel. UI patent on circular wheel, simulated devices, two-finger gestures for zoom/relax, simulated on-screen keyboard.
[iPhoneNews07b]
(*)
www.iPhone-news.org
"iPhone Touchscreen von Fingerworks",
http://www.iphone-news.org, February 7, 2007
- Cites FingerWorks as vendor for multi-touch capacitive digitizer used in Apple iPhone. Apple acquired Fingerworks in 2005: products iGesture Pad and iGesture NumPad. Founders were John Elias and Wayne Westerman, University of Delaware.
[iRexTechnologies07]
(*)
iRex Technologies BV
"iLiad Electronic Reader ER 0100",
iRex Technologies BV
- Electronic Book using e-Ink display technology with touchscreen digitizer and stylus. Uses Wacom penabled stylus, electromagnetic digitizer: see also Super Slim Pen. Mentions specifically use of writing to add annotation mark-up by multiple users. Stereo audio output.
[IsaacsonBass06]
(*)
Isaacson Bass, Portia
"Portial Isaacson Bass, Ph.D. C.V.",
basseconomics.com
- C.V. for Portial Isaacson Bass: mentions early reviews of PenPoint/PenWindows approximately 1991 on likely large business impact pen computing and electronic ink
[Itablet06]
(*)
ITablet
"iTab - The Mac Laptop Evolved",
www.itablet.theplaceforitall.com
- Modified Mac LapTop to be a tablet PC: touchscreen replaces mouse, on-screen simulated keyboard but no handwriting recognition, no provision for it. Does not describe any handling for electronic ink data compared to mouse driver input.
[JainV06a]
(*)
Jain, Vidit
"Handwriting Recognition, Read-Ink Technologies",
Vidit Jain CV
- non-parametric probabilistic approach using various machine learning techniques for online cursive handwriting recognition
[JumpingMinds06]
(*)
JumpingMiNDS Inc.
"InkGestures",
www.jumpingminds.com
- Ink Gestures for JumpingMinds: plug-in for Microsoft Word on Tablet PC. Gestures include single, double and triple flick-like gesture for underline, bold, capitalize: compare with GO PenPoint flick gestures. Left and right flick for indent and outdent, letter P for parapgraph, etc. Support ink annotations, ink comments, selection of which gestures/commands will be included in the input.
[Keks06]
(*)
Keks
"Anleitung fuer den Zauberwuerfel: Loesung fuer den Rubik's Cube",
www.kes.de/wuerfel
- Solution for Rubik's cube puzzle
[KellyJPJ07a]
(*)
Kelly, John P.J.
"Kelly Technology Group",
www.kellytechnologygroup.com
- Expert Witness / Intellectual Property firm, Lucent/Microsoft patent case concerning Agulnick patent. John P.J. Kelly, Principal.
[Klotz06]
(*)
Klotz, Dr. Karlhorst
"Magishe Tische",
Spiegel Magazine, June 24, 2006. Available at www.spiegel.de
- 42 inch Diamond Touch / DiamondTouch table with digitizer and display from Mitsubishi in demonstration in a pub in Salzburg "MayDay Bar". Also mentions similar Stehtisch Gispen XS from Emilie Tromp in Holland, Philips Entertaible, Panasonic digitizer tablet table in Tokyo. Compare to Microsoft table digitizer with multiple touch input.
[Krasner07]
(*)
Krasner, Jeffrey
"Washable computer gives doctors a clean slate",
Boston Globe newspaper, March 5 2007, page E1
- MedTab: Washable Tablet PC slate computer by Emano Tec, sealed so that it can be disinfected for hospital use
- Wayne Bailey, Dr. John Halamka, Bob Caspe of Emano Tec, Newton, Massachusetts
[Krazit07a]
(*)
Krazit, Tom
"Palm cancels first-generation Foleo",
C-net news.com, September 4, 2007: Available at http://news.com.com
- Announcement that Palm Foleo full-keyboard PDA by Jeff Hawkins is being discontinued: Linux-based Palm OS with handwriting recognition in the works
[Krazit07b]
(*)
Krazit, Tom
"Rock bottom for Palm and Hawkins?",
C-net news.com, September 4, 2007: Available at http://news.com.com
- Palm Foleo full-keyboard PDA by Jeff Hawkins is being discontinued: Linux-based Palm OS with handwriting recognition in the works
[KrempM08a]
(*)
Kremp, Matthias
"Microsoft bittet zu Tisch",
Spiegel news magazine (in German), January 10, 2008. www.spiegel.de
- Report from Consumer Electronics Show on Microsoft digital table / surface table touch digitizer, with direct manipulation of photographs. References to iPhone interface. Digitizer touch sensing limit is 52 touch points: four players, 10 fingers plus 3 playing figures each. Compare with Wang Freestyle for graphical manipulation?
[KrempM08b]
(*)
Kremp, Matthias
"Windows 7 bekommt iPhone-Interface",
Spiegel news magazine (in German), May 28,2008. www.spiegel.de
- Report on Microsoft Windows 7 touch-UI interface. Also mentions digital table / surface table touch digitizer, with direct manipulation of photographs. Points out awkward positioning of touch screens at a desk, compares with keyboardless one-laptop-per-child touch system.
[KunteRS07]
(*)
Kunte, R. Sanjeev and Samual, R. D. Sudhaker
"A simple an efficient optical character recognition system for basic symbols in printed Kannada text",
"Sadhana" (Indian publication), Volume 32 Part 5, October 2007, pp 521-533
- Neural-net/adaptive OCR recognition system for machine-printed south-Indian languages: Kannada, Telegu. Claims 99% recognition rate, not clear whether this is per character or in context.
[Lightpen07]
(*)
Lightpen
"Light pen product information circa 2007: multiple vendors in file",
Tauris, www.fastpoint.com, etc.
- Lightpen Vendors include Tauris (germany), Fastpoint.com, others. Mention of CRTs versus LCD displays.
[Livescribe08]
(*)
LiveScribe, Inc.
"Livescribe:: Never Miss A Word (Smartpen)",
www.livescribe.com
- Voice/handwriting recording using Anoto digital pen and digitizing (tablet) paper. Includes syncronized voice recording. Handwriting recognition on pen in real time: example is write "define" followed by word, get definition.
[LucentMicrosoft08]
(*)
Lucent v. Microsoft
"Lucent v. Microsoft",
Press announcement file
- Press articles on Lucent v. Microsoft patent case concerning United States Patent 5,544,295 on tablet PC and gesture-based user interface
[LucentMicrosoft08a]
(*)
Associated Press: Jessica Mintz
"Microsoft to Appeal $367M Patent Ruling",
Associated Press, April 4, 2008
- Microsoft found to infringe GO patent on using gestures on Tablet PC. Other patents in case concern video compression, forms input, and color management.
[MacDailyNews07a]
(*)
MAC Daily News
"Apple's Advantage: iPhone multi-touch patent",
MAC Daily News, June 20, 2007: available at http://www.macdailynews.com
- Press article on multi-touch technology from Apple iPhone, but does not specifically state which patent, or whether it is on the hardware technology
[MacEssentials06a]
(*)
Mac Essentials
"Hinweise auf Tablet Mac mehren sich",
Mac Essentials, March 10, 2006, available at www.mac-essentials.de
- Press article on possible Tablet MAC pen computer, based on iGesture technology from Fingerworks
[MacEssentials07a]
(*)
Mac Essentials
"Rubrik Apple: Das Lexikon der Fingersprache",
Mac Essentials, August 2, 2007, available at www.mac-essentials.de
- Press article on Multi-touch gestures with iPhone, cites Fingerworks. Cites 300 gestures/chords, states that the dictionary functionality is the gist of the patent claims. Examples include two-fingers down for copy, up for undo, etc.
[MacEssentials07b]
(*)
Mac Essentials
"Die Zukunft liegt zwischen den Fingern",
Mac Essentials, January 22, 2007, available at www.mac-essentials.de
- Press article on Multi-touch gestures with iPhone, technology originating at Fingerworks. Mentions separate development by Jeff Han of New York Universtity. Cites Bruce Tagnazzini that the idea (?) was obvious ("hanging in the air") 25 years previously.
[MainI07]
(*)
Main, Ian J.B.; and Ward, Jean Renard
"Detection of System Compromise by Per-Process Network Modeling",
United States Patent Applicaton Publication 2007/0169192 A1, July 19, 2007
- See also related application 2007/0067623 A1. Detection of rootkits and unauthorized software / virus by instrumenting network activity by individual processes, and detecting violation of invariant conditions or highly unusual behavior. Similar to an application firewall, but with analysis done in opposite direction.
[Makowski06a]
(*)
Makowski, Dirk
"Fujitsu Stylistic 1000",
www.winhistory.de
- Technical information and photographs of Fujitsu Stylistic 1000, Windows for Pen Services 1.0, Windows for Pen Services 2.0 (a.k.a. PenWindows)
- Web site contains numerous screen shots, simulations of early Microsoft OS versions, including Windows Bob and DOS
[Makowski06b]
(*)
Makowski, Dirk
"Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing 1.0",
www.winhistory.de
- Screen shots of Windows for Pen Computing 1.0 on Windows 3.11. Trainer application for handwriting recognizer, User training program (WinTutor) to learn how to use handwriting input objects and tools. Shows Pen Services 1.0 gestures: check-mark for edit text, curlicue for cut and un-do.
[Matthey07]
(*)
Matthey, Florian
"Quantum Research will klagen",
MACWelt magazine, February 21, 2007. Available at www.macwelt.de
- Quantum Research files patent suit on touchscreen interferface for iPhone against Apple: patent not specified, described as related to hardware with touchscreen under the surface cover
[MaxwellJW06]
(*)
Maxell, John. W.
"Tracing the Dynabook: A Study of Technocultural Transformations",
PhD Disseration, Factuly of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada, November 2006
- History of Dynabook and its impact on education, contrast of liberal democratic society by Alan Kay with resulting development. Does not focus on impact on graphical user interfaces. Special mention of FOSS "Free and open software" conflict between sharing of development and corporate ownership of software intellectual property with Richard Stallman in 1990's.
[Microsoft06a]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Microsoft Tablet PC - Working with the Pen Tip",
msdn.microsoft.com
- Description of numerous differences between mouse and stylus/pen GUIs as part of education of "mouse" GUI developers to develop applications of Tablet PC and pen-computing: primarily choice of "visible" cursors, obscured view of cursor preventing hover feedback
[Microsoft06b]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Microsoft Tablet PC - Design Recommendations",
msdn.microsoft.com
- Description of numerous differences between mouse and stylus/pen GUIs as part of education of "mouse" GUI developers to develop applications of Tablet PC and pen -computing. Ink data, use of handwriting recogntion, pen as both pointing and input device. Mentions problem of stylus not being suitable for external monitor system and corresponding need to switch between mouse and pen. Mentions that Tap gesture often results in some motion, which does not occur with a mouse.
- See also 2003 version
[Microsoft06c]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Microsoft Tablet PC - Visual Design for Tablet PC",
msdn.microsoft.com
- calibration, parallax, pen position, and positional feedback of Tablet to Screen, not required with mouse. Tablet tap gesture more difficult than mouse click.
[Microsoft06d]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Microsoft Tablet PC - Making the Pen Work",
msdn.microsoft.com
- Application gets both mouse messages for pointing/selection, and separate message for pen data (electronic ink). Mouse data is for pointing, electronic ink is additional data not supported by mouse data.
[Microsoft06e]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Welcome to Windows Mobile!",
msdn.microsoft.com
- Introduction to Windows Mobile OS for Palm OS Developers: Windows Mobile 5.0. Explicit reference to Windows Mobile OS
[Microsoft06f]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 with Windows Mobile OS Images",
msdn.microsoft.com
- Device Emulator for Windows Mobile 5.0 OS devices with Visual Studio 2005. Explicit reference to Windows Mobile OS
[Microsoft06g]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"MSDN Search: Windows Mobile operating system",
msdn.microsoft.com
- List of references to Windows Mobile Operating System in MSDN documenation as of June 2006
[Microsoft06h]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"The Windows Vista Product Guide",
www.microsoft.com
- Description of Beta 2 version of Windows Vista OS with Tablet PC functionality: Additional visual feed back on gestures to avoid perception that action was not completed. Multiple selection triggered by hover of stylus over files/object (requires proximity sensing?), Pen Flick gestures (compare with GO/PenPoint): scroll up, page up, undo, page down, delete, etc. For touch screen, brings up simulated/virtual mouse device a.k.a. Touch Pointer. Snipping Tool from Experience Pack for Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005. Trainable handwriting recognition. Gesture erase scratch-out, strikethrough, vertical scratch-out, circular/angled scratch-out.
[Microsoft06i]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Hardware Requirements",
www.microsoft.com
- For Windows Tablet PC (prior to UMPC Ultra-mobile PC), digitizer required to be 1000 pts/inch or 5 times the display resolution, 100 (preferably 133) points/second, proximity sensing required. Note: on UMPC, requirements changed, proximity no longer required to run Tablet PC OS on UMPC. Note: confuses resolution and accuracy? Ctl-Alt-Del must be separate mechanism.
[Microsoft06j]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"The Microsoft Office System: A Guide for Educators",
msdn.microsoft.com, 21-March-2006
- Educator's tutorial on office: includes sections on OneNote electronic ink notetaking app, Research Pane, writing guides (baselines for writing) for Tablet PC.
[Microsoft06k]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Tablet PC Platform SDK: Tablet Input",
msdn.microsoft.com, 21-March-2006
- Excerpted from "Building Tablet Applications", Rob Jarvet, Microsoft Press
- Distinguishes between system gestures / pen actions, on a par with mouse actions such as click and drag, versus ink-based gestures such as scratchout, up arrow, and curlique. Mentions pen-inversion, the "eraser" end of a two-ended stylus (compare with Wang Freestyle)
[Microsoft06l]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Announcing the Ultra-Mobile PC",
msdn.microsoft.com
- General announcement of Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows XP Tablet PC Operating system. Includes design tips on programming for small display, also notes about "accidental activiation" from touch screen. Note that UMPCs hardware might not support hover. Specific reference to problems with edge effects of the digitizer, especially towards the bottom of the display (hardware design?). "Touch Improvements" pack to adjust UI design from default mouse/tablet settings to work better with Tablet PC (e.g. larger target windows). UMPC display emulator for development. Real-Time Stylus API.
[Microsoft06m]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Brown University, Microsoft Research Open Research Center on Pen-Centric Computing: Alliance to explore pen-based computing",
Press release, March 20, 2006, www.microsoft.com
- Andries van Dam, Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing. Funding for projects related to Tablet PCs and UMPCs for gesture recognition: mentions Music and chemistry applications.
[Microsoft07a]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Practice using pen flicks",
Windows VISTA OS control panel: April 2006
- Pen-flicks: radial "flick" gestures for Forward/Back/Drag-up/Drag-down, similar to Penpoint and to radial gestures. Also has octant radial gestures for Delete/Copy/Undo,Paste: user can assign different meanings to the gestures. Compare to Kurtenbach94 (Bill Buxton?)
[Microsoft07b]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"RecognitionProperty Member",
msdn.microsoft.com, Nov 2007
- Stroke Segmentation documentation for TabletPC InkRecognizer / InkRecognizerBase class in .NET
[Microsoft07c]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Features Explained: Tablet PC Support",
www.microsoft.com, Dec 2007
- Windows Vista Tablet PC support: gestural feedback (shape of gesture?) in single-tap, double-tap, and right-click. Mentions both pen/stylus support and touch-screen support (separately?), pen-flick gestures drag-up, drag-down, delete, undo. Brings up simulated mouse (compare with Wang patent?) for touch-screen to aid in relative-motion input with finger on touchscreen.
[Microsoft07d]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER: posting to Microsoft TechNet forum concerning Vista drivers",
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1714403, June 10, 2007
- Posting concerning Vista/Longhor device drivers: includes dump of driver info on N-Trig tablet digitizer driver ntrigdigi.sys, dated 11-02-2006, N-trig Innovative Technologies, N-trig tablet digitizer in-box driver
[Microsoft08a]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Integrating Application Gestures",
msdn.microsoft.com, ms704819
- Windows Vista / Tablet PC: defines gesture as "a glyph that defines the shape traced by the gesture", plus a hotpoint
[Microsoft08b]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Designing for Direct Manipulation",
msdn.microsoft.com, ms698539
- Tutorial for Tablet PC developers on basic physical differences between stylus/pen interaction with a digitzer, and operation with a mouse. Does not refer to details of mouse/stylus message differece in programming. Tablet resolution in Tablet PC is normalized in software to 0.01 mm. Size of targets, involuntary hand movements, hand/stylus obscuring view of display, hover/proximity feedback with digitizer tablet.
[Microsoft08c]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"SystemGesture Enumeration",
www.microsoft.com
- List of System Gestures for Microsft Tablet PC/Vista. Lists Tap and DoubleTap as gestures that work for both system and application. Description for Tap refers to chosing a command from the menu or toolbar, take action if command is chosen.
[Microsoft08d]
(*)
Microsoft Corporation
"Microsoft Tablet PC - Glossary",
msdn.microsoft.com, ms840456
- Definitions of Application Gesture, Gesture, Application Gesture, Glyph (as ink data). Refers to "Microsoft gesture recognizier" as engine that specifically recognizes ink iput as either system or application commands. "Object regonizer" for recognizing non-gesture, non-handwriting shapes such as musical notation, math notation (i.e. sketch recognition would fall into this). Stroke based on pen down/up. ISF Ink serialized format (similar to JOT?)
[MillerP07]
(*)
Miller, Paul
"Some iPhone touschscreen roots 'splained by FingerWorks inventors",
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Press Release: June 16, 2006
- Fingerworks electrostatic digitizer/touchscreen used in Apple iPhone, multi-touch digitizer.
[MistryP08a]
(*)
Mistry, Pranav and maes, Pattie
"Quickies; Intelligent Sticky Notes",
Proc. 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Environments, IE08, Seattle, 2008
- Electronic ink application using small outboard (sonic?) digitizer with a PC, and paper with embedded RFID tag. Lets writing/ink be tied to the piece of paper, similar capability to Anoto technology, however RFID can be used to locate the paper (which may be tucked into a book or folder) using RFID technology, retrieve specific notes. Demonstration includes used of deferred recognition to index/search notes.
[MistryP08b]
(*)
Mistry, Pranav and maes, Pattie
"Intelligent Sticky Notes that can be Searched, Located and can Send Reminders and Messages/TITLE>
IUT08, January 13-16, 2008, Maspolomas, Gran Canaria, Spain
- Electronic ink application using small outboard (sonic?) digitizer with a PC, and paper with embedded RFID tag. Lets writing/ink be tied to the piece of paper, similar capability to Anoto technology, however RFID can be used to locate the paper (which may be tucked into a book or folder) using RFID technology, retrieve specific notes. Demonstration includes used of deferred recognition to index/search notes.
[Mitsubishi06]
(*)
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
"HoverPen - New Method for Text Input with a Handheld Device",
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Press Release: June 16, 2006
- Stylus is a projector (similar to laser pointer): digitizer is an camera reading the projected light. Currently using a unistroke handwriting recognizer. Part of "Off the Desktop Interaction and Display" research. Mentions as digitizer addition to cellphone and PDAs. http://www.merl.com
[Morag07]
(*)
Morag, Meir and Perski, Haim
"Transparent Digitizer",
United States Patent 7,292,229 B2, November 6, 2007
- N-trig transparent digitizer, using an organic conductor instead of ITO indium tin oxide, cordless stylus excited by loop around digitizer similar to Wacom. Electromagnetic (?) or electrostatic/electric field (?) digitizer tablet (not clear). Part of design that also senses finger touch via electrostatic sensing.
[MotionComputing08a]
(*)
Motion Computing, Inc.
"Use Shorthand to Create a Gesture",
http://www.motioncomputing.com/resources/Shorthand_Gesture.pdf
- Motioncomputing Tablet PC: Definition of single-letter "gestures" using side-button on stylus: appears functionally identical to "recognition macros" of Pencept PenPad 320 series product circa 1985, and similar feature from CIC HandWriter from about the same time. Press side barrel button on stylus, write one letter or symbol, release side button. Pre-defined keyboard input is invoked. LE 1700.
[MotionComputing08b]
(*)
Motion Computing, Inc.
"Motion moves in on other markets, unveils new product",
Austin Business Journal, March 7, 2008 and other press reports
- Motion Computing F5 Tablet PC, XFR D630 : Ruggedized Tablet PC. Also competing ruggedized tougher-tablet market from Samsung, Sony, Dell Latitude XT convertible tablet. Mentions patent infringement lawsuit from Typhoon Touch.
[MotusGames08]
(*)
Motus Games
"Motus Darwin product information",
http://www.motusgames.com
- WII-like game controller using accelerometers and magnetic north, rather than infra-red optical digitizer for sensing hand gestures and position. Compare to accelerometer pen from Hew Crane at SRI.
[Mozdev.org06a]
(*)
Mozdev.org
"Mouse Gestures: rapid execution of common browser commands with mouse movements",
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures
- Mouse gestures for Mozilla / Firefox browser, Thunderbird Mail, and Chatzilla; Close-Tab (down-right), New-Tab (up), Open links (end with Right-up-left). Recognition based on changes in direction?
[Mozdev.org06b]
(*)
Mozdev.org
"Screenshots: MozGest 0.3.5 Final/TITLE>
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures
- Mouse gestures for Mozilla / Firefox browser, Thunderbird Mail, and Chatzilla. Points out confusion of gesture input versus selection of text (because UI is "gesture-enabled", and not "gesture-centric")?
[Mozdev.org06c]
(*)
Mozdev.org
"Gesture Exchange/TITLE>
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures
- Mouse gestures for Mozilla / Firefox browser, Thunderbird Mail, and Chatzilla. Gesture recognition apparently based on changes in direction. Certain gestures involve right mouse button, mouse wheel.
[Mozilla08
(*)
mozilla.org
"FireGestures 1.1.2 von Gomita",
http://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6366
- Mouse gestures for Mozilla / Firefox browser, Thunderbird Mail, and Chatzilla. Gesture recognition apparently based on changes in direction. Certain gestures involve right mouse button, mouse wheel.
[MultiTouchScreen07]
(*)
Multi-Touchscreen.com
"iPhone uses Multi-touch Technology",
http://multi-touchscreen.com, July 2, 2007
- Article on Apple multi-touch UI patent application 20060026535 -- confuses published application versus granting of patent. Highlights two-finger gestures for Zoom and Unzoom. Cites multi-touch UI work by Jeff Han as prior art.
[MultiTouchTechnology08]
(*)
multitouchtechnology.com
"Multi-Touch Technology",
www.multitouchtechnolgy.com
- CNN using multi-touch screens from 2006 TED conference. Apple MacBook with Multi-Touch touchpad using two-finger gestures similar to Apple iPod.
[N-Trig07a]
(*)
N-Trig Corporation
"N-Trig DuoSense (TM) product information",
Available at www.n-trig.com
- Capacitive/electrostatic digitizer technology for either stylus/pen or finger input: not multi-touch. No power required for stylus, appears to use induced voltage similar to Wacom (?) electromagnetic. Driver included in Windows Vista package.
[N-Trig07b]
(*)
N-Trig Corporation
"Dell places 12.1-inch touch screen notebook panel worder with AUO",
www.n-trig.com press release, November 20, 2007
- Public announcement of N-trig with Dell Tablet PC. Capacitive/electrostatic digitizer technology for either stylus/pen or finger input.
[NandaG07]
(*)
Nanda, Gauri
"Mobile Wakeup Device",
United States Patent Application 2007/0036034
- Alarm clock which walks/rolls away when it rings, making the sleeper have to get up to chase the clock
[NaoneE07]
(*)
Naone, Erica
"Computing on Paper: Livescribe's smartpen turns a sheet of paper into a computer",
Technology Review, December 13, 2007
- Anoto digital pen (tablet paper) with limited multimedia functions: voice recording with two microphones to improve quality of recording while taking notes. Founder formerly worked on Fly Pentop computer (www.flyworld.com)
[NewScientist08]
(*)
NewScientist.com news service
"Phones with feeling are more useful",
www.newscientist.com, 24 March 2008
- VibeTonz vibrotactile haptic/vibration feedback for touch interfaces and touchscreens: VibeTonz is a hardware actuator component for PDAs and devices similar to Apple IPhone
[NewsletterArchive07]
(*)
Newsletter Archive
"Help Plan the Future of Tablet PC",
www.newsletterarchive.org: Mobile PC Newsletter May 02, 2007
- New features for Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC / UMPC ink annotation, ink recognition, TEO 3.0 personal planner, OneNote Calendar. Tablet Factory announces sales of word dictionaries for Tablet PC.
[Nokia07a]
(*)
Nokia
"Beyond Multi-touch: Nokia Patens 3D Touchless Control Interface",
www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/01/touchless_device_patent_from_nokia.htm
- Commentary on S60 No-touch / touchless electrostatic touch UI device from Nokia. Allows in-air three-dimensional 3D gestures.
[Nokia08a]
(*)
Nokia
"Nokia N810 Internet Tablet",
www.nokia.com product information
- Dedicated pen computer with MP3 and auto map software, open-source (Linux). Touchscreen digitizer.
[Nokia08b]
(*)
Nokia
"First glimpse inside Nokia S60 Touch. Going beyond Multi-touch",
www.unwiredview.com, January 8, 2008
- Review of S60 No-touch / touchless electrostatic touch UI device from Nokia. Allows in-air three-dimensional 3D gestures. Compared to "Minority Report" film. Due to patent conflicts with Apple Multi-Touch (see Fingerworks), based on Active Matrix LCD with integrated optical touch screen. Gestures include clockwise and counter-clockwise circles, X mark for delete, check mark, lasso / enclosed curve, two finger pinch and expand for zoom.
[NovaMobility08]
(*)
Nova Mobility Systems
"Nova Mobility Rugged Tablet PC and Handheld Computer Systems",
www.novamobility.com
- NMS-5000, NMS-SUNPAD, Tablet PC, Windows Mobile, Windows CD, Windows XP Embedded. touch-screen based pen computers and PDA's. Licensee of Typhoon Technologies. Market is indstrial uses, data collection. Integrated bar code, camera, mag stripe reader. Touch screen with palm rejection -- digitizer technology not stated, says resistive touch. Keyboard usable while user wearing heavy gloves. Compare with products by Leo Shpiz for military market.
[NRW07]
(*)
www.media.nrw.de
"Touchscreen fuer iPhone kommt aus NRW",
Press release by state government of Nordrhein-Westphalia, available at http://www.media.nrw.de
- Apple multi-touch iPhone: touchscreen produced by Balda in Germany, production transfered to TPK in Taiwan.
[Numonics07a]
(*)
Numonics Corporation
"PI-1500 Product Information",
Available at www.interactivewhiteboards.com, www.numonics.com
- Digitizing tablet integrated with a stand-alone desktop display, USB interface, intended as a small whiteboard device. Electromagnetic. Direct mouse compatibility over USB (via plug-and-play driver for absolute vs. relative position?)
[Numonics07b]
(*)
Numonics Corporation
"Interactive Display product information",
Available at www.interactivewhiteboards.com, www.numonics.com
- Electromagnetic tablet/display whiteboards
[Numonics07c]
(*)
Numonics Corporation
"Freedom Writer product information",
Available at www.interactivewhiteboards.com, www.numonics.com
- Electromagnetic tablet/display whiteboards: very small unit used as a remote-control input for a tablet PC for presentation, using infrared connection, About the size of a large PDA held horizontally.
[Numonics07d]
(*)
Numonics Corporation
"Mobilepresenter BT IIproduct information",
Available at www.interactivewhiteboards.com, www.numonics.com
- Electromagnetic tablet/display whiteboards: very small unit used as a remote-control input for a tablet PC for presentation, using Bluetooth. About the size of a slate.
[OQO06]
(*)
OQO Inc. Study
"Tablet PC Edition of Model 01+ hand-held computer",
www.oqo.com
- Hand-held tablet PC running Windows XP Tablet PC edition -- previous product ran regular Windows XP, no electronic ink: predates Origami
[OlsenDR07]
(*)
Olsen, Dan R. Jr.
"Principles of Interactive Systems",
Textbook published electronically at Computer Science Departmet http://icie/cs.byu.deu, Brigham Young University, 2007
- Chapter 19: Text input. text entry should measure not speed, but account for correction steps also. Includes alternative keyboards (one-handed), stylus/digitizer input using various keyboard/button layouts, pop-up menus. Cites Goldberg Unistrokes, T-Cube pie menus, Edge-write mechanically constrained handwriting on PDA, Quikwriting and Cirron circular layout with one stroke moving from character to character. Otherwise not much information on handwriting recognition, script.
- Chapter 20: Digital Ink. Short review of digitizers: resistive film, ultrasonic, Anoto, DiamondTouch capacitive, optical path digitizers. Visual parallax on rear-projected displays. Described multi-stroke gestures (segmentation) as a "messy problem". Zone recognizers for handwriting. Labels handwriting recognizers as "vector classifiers", cites elestic matching of Tappert. Digital/electronic ink as data type (Slate?), credits later Tivoli system from at Xerox Parc by Moran/Kurtenbach. Longer discussion of sketch input and sketch editing, ink annotation on text.
- Chapter 21: Selection. Fitt's law and menus, extension to Steering Law where path (of mouse through cascading menus) is important. Modifications to mouse behavior not to be linear or absolute, to improve path and targeting accuracy. Short mention of digitizer tablet selection gestures.
[Ording06]
(*)
Ording, Bas
"Operation of a Computer wiht Touch Screen Interface",
United States Patent Application Publication, 2006/0053387 A1, March 9, 2006
- multi-touch user interface, simulated keyboard with multiple keys, refers to using "pre-determinted behavior" of the user's touch. Uses area (multiple points) of finger touch as an indication that the user is pressing down harder, therefore uses touch area as a surrogate for the pressure/force for the user.
[Origami06a]
(*)
Origami Product Announcements
"Origami Product Announcements",
www.cebit.de
- Press announcements of the Origami project, a.k.a. UMPC Ultra-Mobile PC. Small form-factor Tablet PC, many models with no built-in keyboard. Mentions use of single characters as macros/gestures -- compare with Pencept/CIC 1985. Has pop-up virtual keyboard in two halves, for the thumbs.
[Origami06b]
(*)
origamiproject.com
"Origami Project",
http://origamiproject.com
- Press announcements of the Origami project, a.k.a. UMPC Ultra-Mobile PC. Mentions TouchPack: DialKeys touch keyboard from Fortune Fountain Ltd., and "Touch Improvements" setting changes for Tablet PC software
[PalmOne06a]
(*)
PalmOne
"Ways to Enter Data into a Palm Device: Write it, typeit, beam it - it's your choice",
www.palmone.com
- Graffiti 2 handwriting recongition. Also mentions on-screen keyboard, Note Pad to scribble notes in electronic ink
[PalmOne06b]
(*)
PalmOne
"
www.palm.com
- Graffiti 2 handwriting recongition. Examples of unistroke (?) shapes from Graffiti 2, which is a version of the CIC handwriting recognition system. Includes description of Palm OS Simulator and Palm OS Emulator, based on "copilot" project by Gref Hewgill
[PalmSource06a]
(*)
PalmSource
"Palm OS: Getting Started / Languages and Environments",
www.palmos.com
- Palm OS languages: Java, "C", C++, Java, Visual Basic
[Parascript07a]
(*)
Parascript Inc.
"Intelligent Recognition technology - the final frontier",
www.parascript.com
- Interactive character recognition ICR (a.k.a. on-line handwriting recognition). Describes a form of chain codes where script writing it broken into eight possible writing motions that combine in appropriate sequences. Uses term "motion theory" for handwriting dynamics / graphanomics. Describes segementation problem in script: "clear" vs. "dear".
[ParkesA08]
(*)
Parkes, Amanda; Poupyrev, Ivan; and Isshi, Hiroshi
"Designing Kinetic Interactions for Organic User Interfaces",
Communications of the ACM, June 2008, Vol 51 No 6; pp 58-ff.
- Organic user interfaces / tangible user interfaces: combination of physical input and haptic/physical feedback, not specific to gesture input. Reference to three-dimensional mechanical digitizers.
[Patalong06]
(*)
Patalong, Frank
"Der Anfang vom Ende gefaellter Baeume",
Spiegel Magazine, June 23, 2006
- E-Ink electronic paper. Mentions prototype project for newspaper publication in electronic book format: De Teij, New York Times, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in PDF format?). Electronic book hardware from iRex: product name Iliad
[PatelN08]
(*)
Pate, Nilay
"MIT reinvents the Post-It note ... with Post-It notes",
www.engadget.com, May 1, 2008
- press reports on Quickie handwriting notes using what appears to be the Anoto pen, with an RFID tag (?) embedded in the paper. Also Girton Labs Ixp-Note, post-it note sized small digitizer, form factor like a postit note. Prototype of DPF711K, touch-screen small size with a post-it note sized display from Audiovox, along with Audiovox Digital Message Center. Sony E- Series display/touchscrren digitizer for taking notes.
[PCWelt07]
(*)
PC-Welt magazine
"Apple's iPhone patent multi-touch advantage",
www.pcwelt.de, June 20, 2007
- Press-article quoting iSuppli on market for multi-touch touch screens, one Apple patent (on UI only?)
[PdaParts07]
(*)
PdaParts.com
"Pam Tungsten T3, Tungsten T5, Palm TX & LifeDrive Digitizer/Touch Panel",
www.pdaparts.com
- Replacement glass tablet digitizer / touch screen for Palm PDAs: manufacturer not identified, shows internal construction
[PenComputing06a]
(*)
Pen Computing Magazine
"Pen windows / WebPads / Tablet PCs",
www.pencomputing.com/PenWindows
- Background article: pen computers used in vertical markets suchs as sales force automation, utilities, health care. Mentions Microsofts Windows for Pen Computing arising after PenPoint/GO received attention. Vendors using CIC PenX alternative to Windows905. History of Microsoft's efforts at PDAs, TabletPC, WebPad, Smart Displays (Project Mira), UMPC.
[PenenbergAL07]
(*)
Penenberg, Adam L.
"Can't Touch This",
Fast Company magazine, Issue 112, February 2007, page 86: www.fastcompany.com
- Press article on Jeff Jefferson Han and multi-touch optical technology demonstrated at TED 2006, Monterey California: company name is Perceptive Pixel. Competition is TouchLight with Microsoft, and DiamondTouch. Also Panasonic, Accenture
[PepperComputer07]
(*)
Pepper Computer
"Pepper Pad 3 Web Computer",
www.pepper.com, www.hanbitamerica.com
- Pen computer, similar to UMPC Tablet PCs, running Linux OS: software for Amacon.com MobiPocket electronic E-books, TV remote control
[Philips06]
(*)
Philips
"Entertaible concept: combination of electronic gaming and traditional board games",
www.research.philips.com
- Entertaible from Philips: Multi-touch "smart" tablet used for playing board games. Multi-touch can sense up to forty-five fingers or touch points.
[PittmanJA07]
(*)
Pittman, James. A.
"Handwriting Recognition: Tablet PC Text input.",
IEEE Computer, September 2007, Vol 40 Number 9 pp. 49..54
- Special issue on Tablet PC uses (mostly whiteboards) in college education. Article gives a brief and very Microsoft-centric view of pen-computing history starting in early 1990s. Recognizer uses word dictionary and time-delayed neural network TDNN. Microsoft/Vista lexical dictionary has been expunged of offensive words.
[Pixelsumo06]
(*)
Pixelsumo
"Multi-Touch Interaction Roundup",
www.pixelsumo.com
- Review of: Apple application on musical input using multi-touch; Jeff Han multi-touch digitizer using frustrated internal reflection; TactaPad; SmartSkin which uses capacitive touchscreen tablet and projection from above of images of playing cards, etc.
[PocketPCMagazine06a]
(*)
Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine
"What is Windows Mobile? Introduction to Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS",
www.pocketpcmag.com
- Buyer's guide to Windows Mobile and Pocket PC products: reference to Windows Mobile OS.
[PocketPCMagazine06b]
(*)
Pocket PC Magazine
"Tips & Tricks: Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, and Smartphone",
www.pocketpcmag.com
- descriptions of gesture: UpDown, DownUp, UpRight/Tab, etc. Reference to Windows Mobile OS as successor to Windows CE OS
[Pothier07]
(*)
Pothier, Mark
"In digital age, more t's are crossed poorly",
Boston Globe, Sunday May 6, 2007, Page a1
- Review of current education (2007) in handwriting styles / penmanship. Zaner-Bloser handwriting method, transition from block printing to cursive. Teaching of cursive/connected-writing declining, mentions legibility training that teaches quick separated characters rather than connected cursive. Cites legibility/handwriting studies by Kathering Boles, Karen Conrad, Barbara Getty, Kate Gladstone (handwriting repair consultants).
[PrevalentDevices06a]
(*)
Prevalent Devices LLC
"The Phraze-It Keyboard 2.0 for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC PDAs",
www.prevalentdevices.com, 2006
- See also one-hand gestures: small keyboard for one-finger typing on PDA instead of using a stylus and touchpad digitizer. Uses few keys by modal switching between vowels and consonants.
[PrevalentDevices06b]
(*)
Prevalent Devices LLC
"Phraze-It One-Handed Finger-Vowel Digital Texting Method",
www.prevalentdevices.com, 2006
- One-hand gestures/signs for finger spelling, using only six hand gestures. Computer input is via an electronic glove, not a digitizing tablet.
[PreyJG07]
(*)
Prey, Jean and Weaver, Alf
"Tablet PC Technology: The Next Generation",
IEEE Computer, September 2007, Vol 40 Number 9 pp. 32..41
- Introduction to special issue on Tablet PCs in education (mostly college level), mostly talks about sketch understanding / sketch recognition (chemical diagrams, circuit diagrams). Refers to Alan Kay Dynabook as early form of Tablet PC (not so?), Proof-of-concept Tablet PC in 1999 based on Transmeta TM5800 processor.
[Quantum07]
(*)
Quantum Research Inc.
"Atmel licenses Quantum's Capacitive Touch Sense Technology",
Press release, Quantum Research, September 20, 2007
- Capacitive touch screen digitizer, used to simulate slide-bars at the edge of a cellular phone, rotary touch control similar to iPod. Interesting touch-sensor application on the keys of a cell phone, to allow single-character writing over the keys. Technical description of capacitive/electro-static digitizer stylus sensing.
[QuinnM08]
(*)
Quinn, Michelle
"Women put a finger on an iPhone problems",
Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2008
- Apple iPhone touch-sensitive digitizer does not work for women with long fingernails, or with gloves. Described tongue-in-check as accessibility problem.
[Radivojevic08]
(*)
Radivojevic, Zoran; Zou, Yanming; Wang, Kong Qiao; Takala, Roope Tapio; Lantz, Vuokko Tuulikki; Lehtiniemi, Reijo; Rantala, Jukka Ilmari; and Vatanparast, Ramin
"Apparatus, Methods and Computer Program Products Providing finger-Based and Hand-Based Gesture Commands for Portable Electronic Device Applications",
United States Patent Application US 2008/0005703 A1, Junary 3, 2008
- Nokia: In-air finger and hand gestures in front of a PDA or cell phone: describes a sonic/sonar digitizer for detecting hand gestures close to the device, but also mentions electrostatic/capacitive and optical hardware, generally relates to use of in-air hand and finger gestures, not the hardware.
[ReadInk06a]
(*)
Rai, Saritha
"Is the Next Silicon Valley Taking Place in Bangalore?",
New York Times, March 20, 2006, page C3
- Read-Ink Technologies, founded by Thomas O. Binford: development of handwriting recognition. Mentions statistical recognition and machine learning
[ReadInk06b]
(*)
Read-Ink Technologies
"Read-Ink Handwriting Recognition and OCR Solutions",
www.read-ink.com
- Read-Ink Technologies, founded by Thomas O. Binford: development of handwriting recognition. Mentions statistical recognition and machine learning, unconstrained writing styles with relative independence from a lexicon. Support for handwriting input for various Indian/Asian languages
[Resende06]
(*)
Resende, Patricia
"Microsoft strengthens ties to N.E.: Software giant gives $1.2M to Brown for pen-based computing",
Mass High Tech, April 6, 2006, page 9
- Microsoft funds Tablet PC / pen-based computing development at Brown University. Mentions ChemPad Tablet-PC appication for molecule models: Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing, Andries van Dam, Director
[RoschelleJ07]
(*)
Roschelle, Jeremy; Tatar, Deborah; Chaudhury, S. Raj; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Patton, Charles; and DiGiano, Chris
"Ink, Improvisation, and Interactive Engagement: Learning with Tablets",
IEEE Computer, September 2007, Vol 40 Number 9 pp. 42..48
- Classroom Presenter and Group Scribbles shared whiteboard application on Tablet PC for college-level education, encourages cooperative engagement and discussion.
[Rosenstein06]
(*)
Rosenstein, Tatiana
"Interfacedesign: In Echtzeit interaktiv agieren",
netzspannung.org: MARS Projekte
- Gesture input in an "interactive room" using various whiteboard, theremin, touchscreen, and video capture digitizers for gesture input
[Roush07a]
(*)
Roush, Wade
"Divice Disorder on the Desktop",
Technology Review, March 23, 2007
- Article on Bumptop by Anand Agarawala at U Toronto (Bill Buxton?): desktop GUI metaphor with documents displayed on a large physical desktop with touchscreen digitizier or mouse. No reference to Freestyle by Steve Levine, which appears similar? Cites to Lifestreams by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter, which appears similar to "Forever Directory" also by Freestyle group.
[SafferD08]
(*)
Saffer, Dan
"Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces",
O'Reily Press, 2008
- General tutorial book on gestural interfaces including motion gestures such as Wii, hand-gestures, eye-winks, body motions, multi-touch from Fingerworks and iPhone
[Samsung07a]
(*)
Samsung
"Samsung UMPC Tablet-PC computer",
Samsung
- press information from CeBIT 2007, March 15, 2007; seven-inch display on Samsung UMPC Tablet-PC
[SchwesigC08]
(*)
Schwesig, Carsten
"What makes an Interface feel Organic?",
Communications of the ACM, June 2008, Vol 51 No 6; pp 67-ff.
- Organic user interfaces / tangible user interfaces: Gummi flexible display, can be bent as a form of gesture input (for zoom) combined with touchpad / touchscreen sensing. Bending force determines how fast it zooms.
[Screendirect07]
(*)
Screendirect.com
"Light Pen Basics - How they Work",
www.screendirect.com/specsheets/LPbasics.html
- Operating and design of Light Pens
[ShannonMM08]
(*)
Shannon, Meg McGinity
"This Menu has changed: Innovative interfaces will give wireless the golden touch",
Communications of the ACM, May 2008, Vol 51 No 5, pp 19-21
- Essay on multi-touch interfaces, gesture with iPhone. Jeff Han cited as multi-touch. GestureTek video gesture recognition -- GestureTek in business since late 1980s.
[ShaoJ07]
(*)
Shao, Joy; Fiering, Leslie; and Kort, Todd
"Dataquest Insight: Tablet PCs Are Slowly Gaining Momentum",
Gartner Reports, 6 April 2007: available at www.garner.com
- Tablet PC market growing: Windows Vista, which integrates tablet PC extensions, will drive tablet PC sales starting in 2008
[Softpedia06a]
(*)
www.softpedia.com
"xGestures",
www.softpedia.com
- xGestures mouse gestures for Mac OS X 10.3: no visual feedback / electronic ink on gestures. Recognizes each separate motion as a sub-gesture, e.g. UpDown is an Up and Down composite gesture
[Softpedia06b]
(*)
www.softpedia.com
"Synaptics and Pilotfish to Develop Next Generation Mobile Phone concept",
www.softpedia.com, 22 August 2006
- Synaptics clearpad capacitive digitizer: "recognizes points, taps, shapes, complex gestures, and proximity of user's finger or cheek" in a portable phone
[SRS06]
(*)
SRS Management
"Die Technology Digital Pen and Paper: FAS Group",
www.srs-management.de
- Members of FAS Group for Forms Automation System using Anoto "digital paper": Kayentis, Meticulus, support from Hewlett-Packard printer group (for printing of the patterned forms)
[Strauss06]
(*)
Straus, Wolfgang; Fleischmann, Monika
"PointScreen: Interaktion ohne Beruehrung",
netzspannung.org: MARS Projekte
- Gesture input whiteboard from Fraunhofer Institute, technology similar to Theremin electrostatic device. In-air gestures, capacitive sensing.
[Synaptics07]
(*)
Synaptics Incorporated
"Product Information: PC & PC Peripheral Products",
www.synaptics.com
- Synaptics ClearPad: capacitive-sensing touchscreen tablet digizer technology, used in UMPC tablet computers
- Synaptics One-Touch controller chips for capacitive sensing touchscreens
- ClearPad by Synaptics: refers to two-finger (multi-touch) touchscreen, and proximity sensing (with front-mounted digitizer? compare with Scriptel)
[TabletPCMagazine06]
(*)
TabletPCMagazine
"Press News from Tablet PC Magazine, from Pen Computing Magazine, March 21 2006",
www.pencomputing.com/TabletPC
- Andries van Dam at Brown University, Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing. Term "pen-centric" from Slate Inc. in 1992? Describes van Dam as early pioneer in pen-based computing.
- PenCentra UMPC Tablet PC product from Fujitsu
- Gateway eStand music reader electronic book with Tablet PC hardware (see Ellis?)
- OQO Tablet PC with Windows Mobile and Windows XP Tablet PC in same device: compare with Origami announcement by Microsoft, which states that Tablet PC 1.7 (?) includes both Tablet PC and Windows Mobile APIs
- Plastic Logic E-Ink 10-inch plastic E-Ink display: flexible display presented as like paper
- Synaptics Dual Mode TouchPad combines electrostatic digitizer and capacitive touchscreen
- FinePoint digitizer: provenance is Mutoh America, took over Kurta, now spun out to FinePoint
- Dave Berque, Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education WIPTE, April 6-7 2006 at Purdue
[Tactiva06]
(*)
Tactiva
"TactaPad",
www.tactiva.com
- Two-handed touchscreen with optical projection, images (shadows) of fingers are projected into graphical image: might be considered "virtual reality" interaction
[Tappert07]
(*)
Tappert, C.C.
"Shorthand and Unistroke Alphabets and Pen Computing",
(private correspondence)
- Draft paper, not for distribution
[TechnologyReview07]
(*)
Technology Review
"To Market; Longhand goes Digital",
Technology Review magazine, March/April 2008, page 36.
- Announcement of LiveScript Pluse Smartpen: Anoto optical digitizer pen using printed pattern on paper, plus syncronized voice recording in the pen. www.livescribe.com
[TheTeacher06]
(*)
TheTeacher99
"HCI (Human Computer Interface)",
www.theteacher99.btinternet.co.uk/theteacher/gcse/newgcse/module6/task11.htm
- Gives MS-DOS as example of command-line HCI user interface, as constrasted to menus, GUI, Speech interface
[ThreeDconnexion08]
(*)
3dConnextion
"Perfekter Begleiter fuer Globe Strotter: 3Dconnexion stellt SpaceNavigator for Notebooks vor",
www.3dconnexion.de
- Press release for SpaceNavigator, three-dimensional mouse pointing device, using force/pressure for up and down, also rotation.
[TouchTable06]
(*)
TouchTable
"TouchTable Product Information",
www.touchtable.com
- Commercial company with touch-senstive table, appears similar to several projects, such as that of Microsoft. 2006. TouchTable GIS hand gestures translated into commonly used input and navigation commands -- similar to recognition macros of PenPad?
[Touchtisch08]
(*)
Touchtisch Projekt
"Touchtisch Ausgabe 01: Erste Erfolge",
(in German) Touchtisch Projekt, Brauneggerstrasse 55, Konstanz, Germany, touchtisch.wordpress.com
- Student project on touch-sensitive interface, using in part a Wii hardware digitizer and Flash (software) on a MAC.
[TownsendR06]
(*)
Townsend, Reed
"Touch Interface for Tablet PCs",
WinHEC 2006 conference, available at www.microsoft.com
- Capactive/electrostatic digitizers for Microsoft Vista Tablet PCs: respond both to finger touch and to stylus, just be able to handle both forms of input. Alternative, hardware to include both an electromagnetic (stylus) digitizer and resistive touch screen for touch. Refers to Microsoft "Tablet Driver Guidance" requirements.
[TrontJG07]
(*)
Tront, Joseph G.
"Facilitating Pedagogical Practices through a Large-Scale Tablet PC Deployment",
IEEE Computer, September 2007, Vol 40 Number 9 pp. 62..68
- Usefulness of searchable (via deferred/delayed recogniton) of digital ink / electronic ink notes in a classroom. Teacher can mark-up papers submitted by student in electronic form. Special mention of electronic whiteboard system using OneNote for group discussion. Using OneNote note-tacking application from Microsoft on Tablet PC. See also AndersonR.
[TruittT06]
(*)
Truitt, Todd R.
"Electronic Flight Data in Airport Traffic Control Towers: Literature Review",
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration. NTIS / William J. Jughes Technical Center, DOT/FAA/CT-05/13
- ATC Air traffic control user interfaces, includes references to French studies on gesture-based input on radar screen. General commentary is that handwriting recognition is undesireable due to cognitive load and errors, simple gestures on a touch screen are advantageous (flick gestures), portable and especially hand-held pen computers for air traffic control are not helpful, in part because they are distracting and require two hands to operate. Mentions that portability of data (from one display/workstation to another) is more important than portable computers in air-traffic control.
[TseE06]
(*)
Tse, Edward; Greenberg, Saul; Shen, Chia; and Forlines, Clifton
"Multimodal Multiplayer Tabletop Gaming",
Third International Workshop on Pervasive Gamin Application - PerGames 2006, May 7th, 2006, Dublin Ireland
- hand/finger gestures by multiple users on a digitizer tablet table top: Refers to sub-gesture and compound gestures. Refers to "wipe" gesture using fist instead of fingertip, two-hand pile-and-browse gesture. Mitsubishi Research www.merl.com
[TurnerD07]
(*)
Turner, Daniel
"The iPhone, Cracked Open",
Technology Review, Vol 110 No 5, September/October 2007, pp 30-31
- iPhone runs stripped-down Mac OX X operating system: multi-touch digitizer from Balda with optical-quality glass surface resists scratching
[TyphoonTouch]
(*)
Typhoon Touch Technologies
"Typhoon Touch Technologies, press information",
www.typhoontouchtechn.com
- Licensing company for two patents (see CloughWA) relating to application generators for tablet/pen computers. Company originally formed to distribute MP3 files. Press reports on settlements with Electrovaya, Motion Computing. See also Nova Mobility (product partner). EDGAR report states that original purpose of company was to sell MP3s on-line, acquired patents from Nova Mobility Systems.
[UMPC06a]
(*)
Microsoft.com
"Ultra-Mobile PC",
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/hardware.mspx, www.intel.com/go/umpc
- See also Origami Project
- Hover/proximity sensing no longer required to get Tablet PC (UMPC) Logo from Windows
- Contains recommendations on target area larger for touch-screen input (no proximity indicator)
- Origami/UMPC project director Otto Berkes: see notes on VMI vs. AutoCAD trade-secret lawsuit
[VibeTonz07]
(*)
VibeTonz
"What's VibeTonz (R)",
www.vibetonz.com
- hardware vibration component used to give tactile/haptic feedback on touch interfaces, such as an Apple iPhone or PDA for touchscreen interface. See also Stephen Brewster at U. Glasgow on vibrotactile icons.
[Visigo07]
(*)
Visigo
"Visigo Task Pad product information",
www.visigotaskpad.com
- Scriptel PDA running Windows CE in a Tablet-PC-sized unit: has additional function buttons, apears to be a notebook-sized / Tablet PC -sized PDA, longer battery life than most Tablet PCs. Product literature shows tethered stylus
[VisionObjects06]
(*)
Vision Objects
"MyScript online handwriting recongiton technology",
www.visionobjects.com
- Handwriting recognition trained to western languages (Danish, Finiish, Norwegian, English (UK), English (US), Italian, etc., Asian Languages Simplified Chinese, Japanese
- InkSearch application for searching electronic ink notes (based on confidence score of handwriting recognition?)
- Personal correspondence with Adrienne Tommy
[Wacom06a]
(*)
Wacom
"PenOffice: Wacom Shareware Archive",
www.wacom-europe.com/uk/downloads/shareware/pen_office.asp
- PenOffice by Paragraph: electronic ink handwritten annotations in MS Word an e-mail, for pressure sensitive Wacom pens (tablets)
[Wacom06b]
(*)
Wacom
"Funktionsweise UltraPen: Wie der kabel- und batterielose WACOM-Stift funktioniert",
www.wacom-europe.com
- Description of cordless stylus from Wacom for electromagnetic digitizer: appears to be similar technology to that used in the rear-mounted digitizer for the OQO?
[Wacom06c]
(*)
Wacom
"PL-720 Innovatives Arbeiten in Perfektion",
www.wacom-europe.com
- Stand-alone tablet/display from Wacom. Rear-mounted electromagnetic digitizer. Battery-free and cable-free stylus.
[Wacom06d]
(*)
Wacom
"Beweiskraeftiges Unterschreiben ohne Papier",
www.wacom-europe.com
- Wacom digitizer/display combination, article states that it is used for "legally binding" handwritten signatures. Reference to signature verification based on writing rhythm and writing speed/velocity (dynamics). Also uses writing pressure/tip-force?
[Wacom07a]
(*)
WACOM Co., Ltd.
"The De Facto Standard for Pen Tablet Devices is Realized using EMR (R) Technology",
www.wacom-components.com/english/technology/emr.html
- General description of Wacom electromagnetic / magnetostrictive digitizer tablets, and the statement that they are de facto the only avilable component for tablet pen computers: Penabled Technoligy, Wacom term for avoiding EMR magnetic field noise by placement of parts and customized adjustment of operating frequencies for each integration. Mentions need to block EMR magnetic field interference from backlighting and traNSFORMERS, ETC.
[Waddington07]
(*)
Waddington, R. Paul
"Digitizer Puck",
members.ozemail.com.au/~cadwest1/gallery/Digitizer_Puck.html
- Images of typical digitizer puck from 1980s. Notes that digitizer was clear transparent glass: Scriptel?
[Walkenbach08a]
(*)
Walkenbach, John
"Lotus 1-2-3 Release History",
j-walk.com/ss/123/index.htm
- History of Lotus 123 Release dates: First Windows (non-DOS) version in 1991, Lotus 1.0 for Windows. Via Voice speech voice recognition added in 1998.
[Walkenbach08b]
(*)
Walkenbach, John
"Excel 2007: Where It Came From",
"Excel 2007 Power Programming with VBA", Wilely.com: j-walk.com, Chapter 1 Excerpt
- Release and development history of Excel spreadsheet program: cites provenance from VisiCalc available at www.bricklin.com; Lotus 1-2-3
[WalkerG06]
(*)
Walker, Geoff
"Touching Origami: Microsoft's UMPC Platform",
www.pencomputing.com, March 12, 2006. Previously published in "Touch Panel Newsletter"
- Review of UMPC initiative: basically a slightly-smaller Tablet PC with a touch-input digitizer instead of a stylus tablet digitizer, and requirement for proximity/hover sensing not enforced by Microsoft. N-Trig capactitive digitzer, cites to previous manufacturer unhappiness at being forced in practice to a single supplier for an electromagnetic digitizer (Wacom).
[WangJ06a]
(*)
Wang, Jian and Zhang, Chunhui
"Optical System Design for a Universal Computing Device",
United States Patent 7,133,031 B2, November 7, 2006
- Microsoft Optical digitizer using rectangular pattern printed on paper: very extensive references to Anoto dot pattern technology from internet print-outs. Mentions including other sensors (accelerometer?) in case the printed pattern is not available, mentions ability to identify individual users (by encoding of stylus?) for simultaneous input from multiple users.
[WangJ06b]
(*)
Wang, Jian; Chen, Liyong; Dang, Yingnong, and Ma, Xinoxu
"Cmera-pen-tip mapping and calibration",
United States Patent 7,136,054 B2, November 14, 2006
- Microsoft Optical digitizer using rectangular pattern printed on paper. No citations to Anoto.
[WangJ07a]
(*)
Wang, Jian and Zhang, Chunhui
"Universal Computing Device for Surface Applications",
United States Patent 7,262,764 B2, August 28, 2007
- Microsoft Optical digitizer using rectangular pattern printed on paper: very extensive references to Anoto dot pattern technology from internet print-outs. Mentions including other sensors (accelerometer?) in case the printed pattern is not available, mentions ability to identify individual users (by encoding of stylus?) for simultaneous input from multiple users. Includes instrumentation of a whiteboard eraser, with printed pattern over a conventional whiteboard.
[Ward07a]
(*)
Ward, Jean Renard
"Detection of system Compromise by Correlation of Information Objects",
United States Patent Application Publication 2007/0067623 A1, March, 22, 2007
- Detection of rootkits or other system compromise by means of checking for violation of invariant conditions in real time, rather than the traditional "two views" scanning method of most rootkit detectors. One example is instrumentation of the Windows OS kernal. See also Ian Main application on similar approach to network behavior.
[Waring06]
(*)
Wacom
"Product Review: OQO model 01 + Handtop PC",
www.jiwire.com, Feburary 17, 2006
- OQO / Wacom tablet: refers to awkward need to hold Wacom stylus at 90-degree angle to digitizer. Refers to Wacom as touch screen, does not mention proximity sensing.
[WeaverB06]
(*)
Weaver, Barbara
"The Case of the Missing Ink",
Keynote address, WIPTE 2006: Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education
- Notetaking by students is a lost learning/teaching art with the advent of laptop computers. Examples of educataional use of electronic ink in notetaking, grading, and teaching using Microsoft OneNote. Appears to be largely a replication of taking notes on paper.
[Welt07]
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Die Welt
"Apple hat Probleme mit iPhone-Lieferanten",
Die Welt / Online, June 26, 2007. Available at www.welt.de
- Apple multi-touch iPhone: touchscreen produced by Balda in Germany, production transfered to TPK in Taiwan.
[wiki-how-help07]
(*)
wiki-how-help.com
"Tablet PcSale: list of business reports/DOS",
Available at wiki-how-help.com
- List of business reports on Tablet PC sales: Vista to spur tablet PC sales
[Wikibooks06]
(*)
Wikibooks
"A Neutral Look at Operating Systems/DOS",
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Neutral_Look_at_Operating_Systems_DOS.html
- MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, freeDOS as keyboard only UI without a GUI interface
[Wikipedia06a]
(*)
Wikipedia.org
"Fuzzy set",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_sets
- Definition of Fuzzy set, many-valued logics, theory of possibility, uncertainty in engineering
[Wikipedia06b]
(*)
Wikipedia.org
"Graffiti (Palm OS)",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
- Description of Graffiti and Xerox lawsuit concenring Goldberg patent 5,596,656. Xerox had demonstrated neographic Unistrokes to Palm before Graffiti. Jot handwriting recognition from CIC replaced Graffiti. Symbian UIQ pen computing tablet platform.
[Wikipedia07a]
(*)
de.Wikipedia.org
"Lichtgriffel",
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtgriffel
- Description of Light Pen technology: only works with CRT displays due to refresh frames, not with LCDs or other flat panel displays. (Lichtgriffel)
[Wikipedia07b]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Memex",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
- Description of Memex by Vannevar Bush: mentions lack of citation to Goldberg and Townsend previous inventions. Voice/speech recognition, but not handwriting recognition. State that Memox did *not* have Hyptertext links, contrary to other historians.
[Wikipedia07c]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Intelligent Machines Research Corporation",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Machines_Research_Corporation
- 1951 OCR character recognition system in 1951 on Gismo
[Wikipedia07d]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Neonode",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonode
- optical digitizer for Windows CE palm-top computing: infrared light beams from LEDs, implies no handwriting recognition with reference to keyboard
[Wikipedia07e]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Sketchpad",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
- General reference on Sketchpad drawing program by Sutherland in 1960s: mentions also T-Square by Peter Samson from 1962.
[Wikipedia08a]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Mouse gesture",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture-based_interface
- General reference on mouse gestures: history first mouse gesture (not using a pre-defined shape) was "drag" by Apple to replace a dedicated "move" button on the mouse. Cites lack of feedback to show that the gesture was recognized correctly (showing actual gesture: compare with GO/Agulnick), and visibility to make gestures easy to learn. Cites to Buxton for awkwardness of mouse as a gesture device compared to stylus and tablet digitizer.
[Wikipedia08b]
(*)
en.Wikipedia.org
"Post-WIMP",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-WIMP
- Post-WIMP: defines as paper sheet user interface, contrasted to WIMP Windows Icons, Menus, Pointing device user interfacse. See Andries van Dam
[WinTab06]
(*)
Wacom
"Notes for Tablet Aware Application Developers",
www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/imbpc/gddevpc.html
- Documentation on Wintab Application Programmers Interface / Wintab API. Mentions Stylus vs. Airbrush vs. 4D Mouse vs. 5 button puck. Additional thumbwheel on multi-button 3-button puck for additional manipulation UI
[WuM06]
(*)
Wu, Mike; Shen, Chia; Ryall, Kathy; Forlines, Clifton; and Balakrishnan, Ravin
"Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Resuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces",
IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer systems (TableTop), January 2006, pp 183..190
- hand/finger gestures by multiple users on a digitizer tablet table top: Refers to sub-gesture and compound gestures. Refers to "wipe" gesture using fist instead of fingertip, two-hand pile-and-browse gesture. Mitsubishi Research www.merl.com
[Xerox06]
(*)
Xerox/Palm: news article
"Technology lawsuit vs. Palm, 3Com is reinstated",
Boston Globe, June 9, 2006, Page E2, "Business in Brief"
- Xerox/Palm/3Com patent case on Unistroke/Graffiti ordered by appeals court to be reconsidered
[YamamotoM07]
(*)
Yamamoto, Mike
"Rumor: Is Apple tablet in the works?",
crave.cnet.com, November 6 2007
- Crave UK posting on prototype tablet PC / pen-computer slate computer from Apple
[YoshidaJ07]
(*)
Yoshida, Junko
"iPod's lesson: please touch",
EE Times, December 12 2005
- zForce optical digitizer from Neonode using infrared light beams for palm-top pen computer: implies low resolution of "several times a second"?
[ZDNet07a]
(*)
ZDNet
"Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict",
www.zdnet.com, February 22, 2007
- Jury award in Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft patent suite, MP3 technology. Refers to MP3 license from Fraunhofer.
[ZDNet07b]
(*)
ZDNet
"Gallery: Cracking open the iPod Nano",
www.zdnet.com
- Photographs of disassembly of an Apple IPod: shows Synaptics components for the butten-and-wheel interface for the iPod -- touch screen technology?
[Zhai06]
(*)
Zhai, Shumin
"Das grosse Wedeln",
Bild der Wissenschaft, February 2006, p. 97
- (in German) Non-character recognition ShapeWriter: pop-up keyboard with letters and characters organized so that words can be input by
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