Our design approach
therefore considers a virtual work desk on which documents are placed and manipulated byusers using appropriate multitouch and stylus-based interactions. As
target media, we consider page-based documents consisting mainly of assembled elements, such as presentations, flyers etc. Intuitively, we feel the latter types of
documents stand much more to gain from a pen and
touch platform compared to, say, continuous, textintensive documents such as reports andtheses.