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<\/p>\n<\/p>I am very happy to announce that the last work from my Dissertation is set to be published at Graphics Interface this year. The publication, \u201cHands, Hover, and Nibs: Understanding Stylus Accuracy on Tablets\u201d reports on a two-stage user study that evaluated the role hand posture, the\u00a0information\u00a0available from the hover cursor, and nib diameters\u00a0have\u00a0on\u00a0the user experience while inking. a user study that was conducted at Microsoft Research during my extended internship. Walter assisted me with the analysis and discussion sections of the work. Once the full paper is available, I will provide a link to it, but for now the abstract is below.\n
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Abstract:<\/p>\n
Although tablets and styli have become pervasive, styli have not\u00a0seen widespread adoption for precise input tasks such as annotation,\u00a0note-taking, algebra, and so on. While many have identified that\u00a0stylus accuracy is a problem, there is still much unknown about how\u00a0the user and the stylus itself influences accuracy. The present work\u00a0identifies a multitude of factors relating to the user, the stylus, and\u00a0tablet hardware that impact the inaccuracy experienced today.\u00a0Further, we report on a two-part user study that evaluated the\u00a0interplay between the motor and visual systems (i.e., hand posture\u00a0and visual feedback) and an increasingly important feature of the\u00a0stylus, the nib diameter. The results determined that the presence of\u00a0visual feedback and the dimensions of the stylus nib are crucial to\u00a0the accuracy attained and pressure exerted with the stylus. The\u00a0ability to rest one\u2019s hand on the screen, while providing comfort and\u00a0support, was found to have surprisingly little influence on accuracy.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am very happy to announce that the last work from my Dissertation is set to be published at Graphics Interface this year. The publication, \u201cHands, Hover, and Nibs: Understanding Stylus Accuracy on Tablets\u201d reports on a two-stage user study that evaluated the role hand posture, the\u00a0information\u00a0available from the hover cursor, and nib diameters\u00a0have\u00a0on\u00a0the user […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,7,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pen","category-phd-graduate","category-projects","category-thesis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fMLx-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}