The digital ink environment is unlike the desktop metaphor that we know and have grown used to. A digital board is more personal than a monitor, in a way that it allows us to directly touch it and see the immediate reaction through the digital pen. In classrooms where huge wall-mounted digital boards are utilised, it is impossible to have a bird's eye view of the whole environment when we are s...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is actively engaged in external and internal research to ensure that deinkability of the current recycled paper streams is maintained as the percentage of digital prints in deinking mill furnish increases. As part of this effort, HP is working to understand how ink and paper interactions affect the flotation deinking process. Results continue to show that paper type and des...

Modelling freehand writing in all its capacitive expressiveness and stylised apotheosis for the enhanced support of the e-learning industry is highlighted in this paper. The trend of moving towards natural environments in the digital world encourages freehand writing to be the bridging tool that encompasses portable and synchronisable standards of manipulating ink data. Our proposals of utilisi...

We present iAnnotate, a tool that provides multi-user digital ink annotation on standard web pages within a commercial browser. The annotation can be saved, retrieved and shared with others via a URL. In addition multiple users’ annotations can be displayed on the same page. We describe our design goals and the technical challenges. While realizing annotation on web documents is difficult becau...

This paper describes a digital project in which ink-and-wash painting, an East Asian art form with a 1,300-year history, is drawn in interaction with an audience. This project was intended to analyze the traditional thoughts and techniques associated with the ink-andwash painting of an orchid, a design that expresses Eastern philosophy. The project relies on an interactive technique to demonstr...

Recently growth of pen-computers and personal digital assistants has made electronic ink a first-class object. One of the most important problems under this model is to search ink data at previously stored pen-strokes. In this paper we proposed and implemented a matching algorithm of write-dependant ink search for oriental characters, especially mixed Korean with Chinese characters. Our algorit...

The importance and use of digital ink in formulas and diagrams is well recognized, and currently utilized by scientific and technical users of pen-enabled computers. Similarly, there is a growing recognition as to the utility of collaborative tools that allow multiple users to edit a document, either simultaneously or asynchronously. Finally, more people are using real-time communication tools ...

Collaborative Learning is a technique used in problem or task resolution where learning occurs through the exchange of knowledge between students, and between students and teachers. In some situations communication between partners is better undertaken through the use of sketches or diagrams. The proposed environment introduces several tools into a computer supported learning environment using ...

Pen-based computers and personal digital assistant's (PDA's) are new technologies that are growing in importance. In previous papers, we have espoused a philosophy we call \Computing in the Ink Domain" that treats ink as a rst-class datatype. One of the most important questions that arises under this model concerns the searching of large quantities of previously stored pen-stroke data. In this ...

Commenting on a student’s computer program with red pen ink annotations is not possible with current software and paper program ‘listings’ are a relic of a bygone era. Yet ink annotations are the easiest way to provide rich feedback to the student. We have developed and evaluated Penmarked as a software solution to this problem. It supports free-form ink annotations and, importantly, associated...