with Gregory Abowd, Jeff Pierce, Khai Truong, and Trevor Pering

Cepher is a prototype note capture system that supports the capture and retrieval of short notes through a variety of input devices. People would often like to use a variety of methods, like paper, keyboards, or microphones, to capture important thoughts; furthermore, they would like to immediately capture these thoughts instead of waiting until later for an available recording mechanism. Current digital note capture systems tend to be monolithic applications that do not either dynamically support a variety of input mechanism or allow flexible access from a variety of viewers. Cepher leverages research advances in hardware and software to provide a flexible infrastructure for note taking applications, which
can then be treated as a federation of independent input, output, and storage subsystems.

publications:

• Hayes, G., Pierce, J.S., and Abowd, G.D. (2003)  Practices  for  Capturing Short Important Thoughts. In the Extended Abstracts of CHI’03 (April 5-10, Fort Lauderdale, FL).

• Hayes, G. R., Pierce, J.S., and Abowd, G.D.  User Trends in the Capture and Access of Short Important Thoughts.  Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report GIT-GVU-03-09. April 2003.

• Hayes, G.R., Rea, A., Brunette, W., Abowd, G.D., Pierce, J.S., Truong, K.N., Pering, T. Lightweight Note-Taking Tools Using a Confederation of Mobile Capture and Access Devices. Workshop on Multi-Device Interfaces for Ubiquitous Peripheral Interaction at Ubicomp 2003 (October 12-15, Seattle, WA), 2003.