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Fig. 5.1 Examples of handwritten annotations
writing. Existing paper-based annotation interfaces do not address this issue and
provide to all users the same annotation space. Initial field analyses undertaken in
the early design phase of CoScribe showed that depending on their personal annota-
tion style, users prefer different print layouts. For instance, our observations showed
that additional empty areas on lecture handouts seemed necessary to most students
for making extensive annotations. Most right-handers prefer such empty notetaking
areas being located to the right of the actual document page, while left-handers pre-
fer them to the left. While in some contexts, the user makes many annotations on the
document (e.g. during a lecture), other contexts (e.g. excerpting on a separate sheet
of paper) do not require making many annotations and therefore, the user should be
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