hover based writing for touch surfaces

I can't speak to any research on the topic, but this is one of the main
reasons I never bought a tablet computer (even though I really like the
concept). I found it very unintuitive to have the "pen" start "drawing"
before it touched the screen. I've seen the same behavior on drawing
tablets. I never figured out if this is an artifact of the technology being
used or a purposeful design decision.

-Jeff

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Kunal Kapoor <kunalkapoor1975 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am working on the thread, 'hover based writing for touch surfaces'.
>
> Any initiation in terms of pointers to great (hopefully conclusive)
> research, experiments, and articles will be great.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kunal Kapoor.
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