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ten contents, sometimes performing handwriting recognition in the background to
allow for full-text search. It will be interesting to see how contents that are created
on pen-and-paper can be more directly integrated with tagging platforms, blogs and
social networks, known as the Web 2.0.
This survey has shown that the hardware for realizing Pen-and-Paper Interfaces
is readily available. However, the field lacks
standards and interoperability
of solu-
tions. This concerns not only interfaces for abstracting from the pen hardware and
an effective standard for digital ink data, but also standardizations in authoring and
publishing.
Finally, we have seen that, even though a large number of Pen-and-Paper Inter-
faces was developed, there is only very little research examining
how people use
these interfaces
. Most publications do either not report on user feedback at all or
provide only limited insights. Only a small number of of studies examine how Pen-
and-Paper Interfaces are used over a longer period of time and how they are inte-
grated into existing information ecologies. Future work should definitely deepen our
understanding and conduct more long-term studies of Pen-and-Paper Interfaces.
