Paper #4: Digital Pen and Paper Practices in Observational Research

Intro:
Title:Digital Pen and Paper Practices in Observational Research
Reference Information:
Author bios: NadirWeibel, Adam Fouse, Colleen Emmenegger, Whitney Friedman, Ed Hutchins, Jim Hollan
  All of the authors are from University of California, either a PHD student or Professor.

Summary:
This paper talks about how digital pen and paper practice can be integrated. It contains many studies that goes along with this topic. They show how their research can use on many different reality world, such as video process for flight control, take notes with digital pen, and process notes with digital pen.

Related Works:

1. Beyond paper: supporting active reading with free form digital ink annotations
2. Annotation: from paper books to the digital library
3. Usability testing of a digital pen and paper system in nursing documentation
4. Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper
5. PenLight: combining a mobile projector and a digital pen for dynamic visual overlay
6. Designing pen-and-paper user interfaces for interaction with documents
7. Papiercraft: A gesture-based command system for interactive paper
8. Despite technical problems personal digital assistants outperform pen and paper when collecting 

9. Tabletop displays for small group study: affordances of paper and digital materials

   10.CoScribe: Integrating paper and digital documents for collaborative knowledge work

The work I read about is not novel, this is because many people had research on this kind of topic already. It talks about other related work in the study since they use other's work to combine with theirs.

Evaluation:
Both qualitative and quantitative measures. Aviation human factors researchers used  symbol to quantify the number of AER interaction. for qualitative, they used forms for emergency drill.  It's systemic because they conducts many researches to show their research result, such as handwriting recognization for categorical data and the proximity of the elephants.

Discussion:
I think this topic is very interesting to read about and had much contribution in this field. This field is very useful to researchers and students like me, since we have to take many notes in school. Today in the society, we are transiting from paper notes to digital notes. With that in mind, this function is super useful to everyone in the society.