In addition to observing chair users in their habitats, Mr. Kane said that he gets ideas from doodling.
And physical activity, such as going for a walk or even fidgeting and doodling, can keep people engaged, researchers say.
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Mr. Silton had no interest in doodling until he began managing money.
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Dynamite spends most of his days daydreaming, or doodling his obsession, ligers.
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During a break, the substitute pianist, a young African-American jazz musician named Herbie Hancock, was doodling with a tune he'd just written.
His doodling reflected some of that stress, he says, and helped him focus on what was said in meetings that sometimes dragged into the night.
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"I'm not some grand vizier in my office doodling, " notes Gehry.
Anywhere within the OS, you can tap the pen on the screen to take a screenshot and then instantaneously start writing or doodling over that image.
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Even PowerPoint software developers do their share of doodling.
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If we need a new character and decide we need a new project, I just go home and do some thinking, some doodling with a pencil and paper until an idea comes to me.
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You might hesitate at first to rest the heel of your palm on the tablet while you're doodling, but you may as well get comfy: the tablet won't register any markings where your hand was.
In fact, to my mind, the single most surprising image of the whole campaign (besides Al's drunken dancing on loser night) was the cocktail napkin doodling Gore did on information technology for Red Herring magazine.
After some doodling in Photoshop we found the same surface that was too rubbery for our fingers to be slightly too slippery for the stylus, lacking the advertised "paper-like tablet surface" as found on the original Bamboo.
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