I'm working on a proposal that involves capturing handwriting -- not 
recognizing it, just capturing it -- in a clinical trial setting, where 
the doctor is "facing" a patient via video conference. (There would be 
forms with check boxes as well.) The team is debating how to do this. On 
the one hand, we don't need a tablet PC, because it's not a portable 
environment, so a plain digitizing tablet connected to a bigger PC seems 
better. But this would mean giving up the unified 
presentation-input-feedback arrangement, forcing doctors (of all people) 
to write while looking at a monitor to see what they're writing. This 
scenario worries me. (Another factor is that the examiner is meant to 
maintain eye contact with the subject.)

Is there any research on non-artists using digitizing tablets for 
handwritten input combined with forms in this type of setting? Any 
strong opinions on the matter?

Thanks much,
Jim Hoekema
BusinessEdge Solutions

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