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One sentence summary
- Understand how math augmentation (maugs) enhance readability of formulas, and how future authoring tools could help authors create augmented notation.
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Motivation
- The challenge of making mathematical notation more understandable
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Gap
- this paper is to review the practice of math augmentation in order to inform the design of tools of each of these types for math notation
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Research Questions
- 1. How do authors augment notation to improve its readability?
- 2. How can authoring tools help authors augment notation in the ways that they wish to more easily?
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Method
- 1. Content analysis
- 2. Interview Study
- two qualitative studies
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All the takeaways
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1. Augmentation practice
- 1.1 Benefit in improving engagement
- 1.2 16 kinds of maugs were observed, belonging to the categories of visual notation, style, annotation, and interactivity.
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2. Authors’ Tool
- 2.1 Challenge of current tool (time-consuming, limitation of the static media, hard to introduce complex formulas, LaTaX was hard to use)
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2.2 The design of future tools for presenting math notation
- - Next-generation markup languages
- - Graphical editors
- - Intelligent design assistants
- 3. Insights into authoring practice, knowing their preference and the challenges they face.