Prior research identified that physical paper documents have many positive attributes, for
example natural tangibility and inherent physical flexibility. When documents are presented …

Learning from text is a constructive activity in which sentence-level information is combined
by the reader to build coherent mental models. With increasingly complex texts, forming a …

We investigate whether the notion of active reading for text might be usefully applied to
visualizations. Through a qualitative study we explored whether people apply observable …

Ink is a powerful medium for note-taking and creativity tasks. Multi-touch devices and stylus
input have enabled digital ink to be editable and searchable. To extend the capabilities of …

Growing interest in personal fabrication has resulted in many ways to ideate, design, and
prototype, in addition to studies of who a maker is and the challenges they face. Less …

This paper sheds light on gaps and discrepancies between the experiences afforded by
analog pens and their digital counterparts. Despite the long history (and recent renaissance) …

The orientation and repositioning of physical artefacts (such as paper documents) to afford
shared viewing of content, or to steer the attention of others to specific details, is known as …

Individuals and organizations increasingly rely on data analysis to generate insights and
make decisions. Yet, small changes in how data are collected, cleaned, or modeled can …

This paper describes two experiments that compare paper and computer displays in cross-
reference reading for multiple documents. The first experiment quantitatively showed the …

Scholarly knowledge synthesis—the production of a novel conceptual whole such as an
effective literature review or theory—is a critical yet consistently challenging subtask of …