TY - JFULL AU - Jaakko Parviainen and Keijo Haataja and Antti Väänänen and Pekka Toivanen PY - 2012/12/ TI - Tablet Computer as a User Interface: Intelligent Solutions for Multifunctional Hardcopy Devices T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1468 EP - 1477 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1794 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 71, 2012 N2 - Tablet computers and Multifunctional Hardcopy Devices (MHDs) are common devices in daily life. Though, many scientific studies have not been published. The tablet computers are straightforward to use whereas the MHDs are comparatively difficult to use. Thus, to assist different levels of users, we propose combining these two devices to achieve straightforward intelligent user interface (UI) and versatile What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) document management and production. Our approach to this issue is to design an intelligent user dependent UI for a MHD applying a tablet computer. Furthermore, we propose hardware interconnection and versatile intelligent software between these two devices. In this study, we first provide a state-of-the-art survey on MHDs and tablet computers, and their interconnections. Secondly we provide a comparative UI survey on two state-of-the-art MHDs with a proposal of a novel UI for the MHDs using Jakob Nielsen-s Ten Usability Heuristics Evaluation. ER -