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SUMMARY OF CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT COMPUTER-ASSISTED NOTETAKING SYSTEMS CHARACTERISTICS OF SYSTEMS
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System
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User abbreviation to increase speed
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Location of text display
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Attempts verbatim or real-time notes
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Communication between student and transcriber
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Required skills and/or training |
| CAN-Cleveland (Messerley & Youdelman, 1994) | Not described | Connect with monitor | Generally, summary notes | One-way communication: transcriber to student | Minimal: must be able to summarize; type more than 60 wpm; good English use |
| Computer-Assisted Notetaking-NY (Kozma-Spytek & Balcke, 1995) | Not described | Connect with laptop | Summary notes | Two-way communication between transcriber and student | None described |
| CAN-Washington, D.C. (Virvan, 1991) | Abbreviations used as long as everyone understands. Does not use computerized abbreviation expansion program | Connect with monitor or laptop | Usually summary notes, but is capable of near-verbatim transcription | One-way communication: transcriber to student | Overall little traning, but required skills are ability to type over 60 wpm and summarize well, good English skills, hear well |
| C-Note (Cuddihy, Fisher, Gordon, & Shumaker, 1994) | Student & transcriber develop apprpriate shorthand system | Connect with laptop | Varies from near-verbatim to summary notes | Two-way communication between transcriber and student | Not described |
| Project CONNECT (Knox-Quinn & Anderson-Inman, 1996) | Not described | Connect with laptop | Summary notes and near-veratim text | Two-way communication between transcriber and student |
Not described
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| C-Print (TM) NTID System (McKee, Stinson, Everhart, & Henderson, 1995; Everhart, Stinson, McKee, Henderson & Giles, 1996) | Emphasizes extensive use of phonetically-based abbreviation system to reduce key strokes | Connect with monitor or laptop | Near-verbatim text | Two-way communication between transcriber and student |
Transcriber should be able to type 60 wpm. Formal course provided, with 62-page training manual and 50 training audiotapes |
| InstaCap (Hobelaid, 1988; Warick, 1994) | Uses single keystrokes to invoke full words for 20 abbreviations | Wireless connection with monitor | Varies from near-verbatim to summary | One-way communication: transcriber to student | Not fully described; transcriber's skills evaluated every 3-5 years |
| Notebook Computer Notetaking System (James & Hemmesley, 1993) | Not described | Connect with laptop | Generally summary notes | Two-way communication between transcriber and student | Not described |