Rich Miner Android co-founder Man / Machine Interface Digital Ink / Stylus and other Modalities

Rich Miner Co-Founder Android @richminer

35,000 years of innovative & creative output supported by “ink”

33,000 BC 1215 1488 1890 1951 2014

The interface to our best 2017 tech is an 1873 innovation

1873 1961 1981 2010

QWERTY Keyboard used at scale for only the past +/- 30 years

1873 1961 1981 2010

QWERTY With a fresh start you would not choose QWERTY on glass

1873 2016

WAIT!!!!! In 2017 Ink is still heavily used to get work done

2016 Apple has Pencil Microsoft has Surface

Google has and Android w/Ink

Confluence of Technologies Confluence of multiple technology’s

enabling something new and amazing from the alignment of different technology roadmaps Confluence of multiple technology’s CPU Confluencememory of multiple technology’s UX battery tech

network bandwidth display resolution real OS & development tools Voice Based Assistants Confluence of multiple technology’s Confluence of multiple technology’s SpeechConfluence accuracy of multiple technology’s AI/ML

Network performance

CPU/signal processing

Ink latency Pen precision

API’s

App’s Device proliferation

HWR accuracy 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?

Kindergarten

Letter/number/shape recognition Basic Storytelling with pictures & words Phonics Sight words

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3rd Grade

Spelling, vocab, sentence structure Addition and subtraction within 100 Multiplication and division within 100

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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

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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 ofMan multiple / Machine technology’s UX

But these devices can….

Understand our…

.. words

.. writing

.. facial expressions

.. gestures Assistive Ink This is how we communicate facial expression Future of man / machine interaction assistive UX gesture digital ink communicating naturally as we have for voice 10’s of thousands of years recognition