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- Relationships and communication patterns with other people: During the actual note-taking process, people tend to be focused on the presentation or reading that is the subject of their notes, so they are not interacting with those around them. People might wish to share notes once they're done, for instance with friends who couldn't (or didn't) go to class on a particular day.
Task Analysis
why is the task being done
what does the user need to know of have before doing the task
where is the task performed
what is the environment like
how often is the task performed
what are tis time or resource constraints
how is the task learned
what can go wrong
who else is involved in the task
Typing text notes
Problem: Taking notes on paper leads to several problems -- most notably the fact that multiple notebooks are needed to organize notes from multiple subjects. For many computer users, typing is actually faster than writing by hand, so typing notes may prevent a user from falling behind the lecturer, especially if the user wants to take notes on things that are said and not written. Users of text editing software have also complained about formatting text for notes, especially outline formats with bullet points, and integrating source code into text notes (in programming classes) while formatting the code nicely.
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