Rich Miner

Android co-founder

Man / Machine InterfaceDigital Ink / Stylus and other Modalities

Rich Miner

Co-Founder Android

@richminer

33,000 BC 1215 1488 1890 1951 2014

35,000 years of innovative & creative

output supported by “ink”

1873 1961 1981 2010

The interface to our best 2017 tech is

an 1873 innovation

QWERTY

1873 1961 1981 2010

Keyboard used at scale for only

the past +/- 30 years

QWERTY

1873 2016

With a fresh start you would not choose QWERTY on glass

WAIT!!!!!

2016

In 2017 Ink is still heavily used to get work done

Apple has Pencil Microsoft has Surface

Google has Pixelbook

and Android w/Ink

Confluence of multiple technology’sConfluence of Technologies

enabling something new and

amazing from the alignment of

different technology roadmaps

Confluence of multiple technology’s

Confluence of multiple technology’s

CPU

memory

network bandwidth

UX

display resolution

battery tech

real OS & development tools

Confluence of multiple technology’s

Voice Based Assistants

Confluence of multiple technology’s

Confluence of multiple technology’s

Network performance

Speech accuracy

CPU/signal processing

AI/ML

Ink latency

HWR accuracy

Device proliferation

Pen precision

API’s

App’s

Shape of the future

Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline

Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline

Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline

If you do your jobs well this the future of work...

The world can

be your canvas

What can we

do?

Source

Kindergarten

Letter/number/shape recognition

Basic Storytelling with pictures & words

Phonics

Sight words

Source

3rd Grade

Spelling, vocab, sentence structure

Addition and subtraction within 100

Multiplication and division within 100

Source

5th Grade

Clear, coherent writing with logically ordered reasoning

Evaluate evidence from literary or informational text

Fractions, decimals

Shape volume

Measure and interpret data

Graphing

We got very attached to the QWERTY keyboard

But remember why we started using it as an interface to

computer systems..

ASCII

An abstraction from 1 & 0’s

paved the way

for higher level

programming

languages

Like FORTRAN

FORTRAN

Formula Translation

501 FORMAT(3I5)

601 FORMAT(4H A= ,I5,5H B= ,I5,5H C=

,I5,8H AREA= ,F10.2,

$13H SQUARE UNITS)

602 FORMAT(10HNORMAL END)

603 FORMAT(23HINPUT ERROR, ZERO VALUE)

INTEGER A,B,C

10 READ(5,501) A,B,C

IF(A.EQ.0 .AND. B.EQ.0 .AND. C.EQ.0) GO TO

50

IF(A.EQ.0 .OR. B.EQ.0 .OR. C.EQ.0) GO TO

90

S = (A + B + C) / 2.0

AREA = SQRT( S * (S - A) * (S - B) * (S - C) )

WRITE(6,601) A,B,C,AREA

GO TO 10

50 WRITE(6,602)

STOP

We can compile

formula’s

Directly, and in

real time!

Why can’t I

compile this?

Confluence of multiple technology’sMan / Machine UX

But these

devices can….

Understand our…

.. words

.. writing

.. facial expressions

.. gestures

Assistive Ink

This is how we communicate

Future of man /

machine interaction

voice

recognition

digital

inkcommunicating naturally as we have for

10’s of thousands of years

facial

expression

gesture

assistive UX