Question

sharing the doodle love
doodles were once common on handwritten messages. yet emails, texts, and social media posts have largely taken the place of written notes. a group of graduate students at the university of california, san diego, thought this was a real loss. in their opinion, doodling enriches communication. so they put together a tool called ubisketch. it uses a special pen and paper to automatically create digital doodles that can be shared with friends online.
during a four - week study, ten people agreed to doodle as they normally would, using ubisketch. in that time period, the participants shared over 200 doodles. they reported feeling that they could share things in doodles that they might not otherwise feel comfortable posting online. the doodles expressed their emotions and personality in a way that text messages and photos could not.
why did the graduate students create ubisketch?
because most communication is done digitally these days, people do not to doodle by hand. however, the graduate students thought doodling was important for. so they created a special tool that lets people

Explanation:

To answer the question "Why did the graduate students create UbiSketch?", we analyze the text:

1. The first part of the passage states that "doodles were once common on handwritten messages. Yet emails, texts, and social media posts have largely taken the place of written notes." This shows that traditional doodling (on handwritten messages) has been replaced by digital communication, so people don’t doodle by hand much anymore.
2. Then, "a group of graduate students at the University of California, San Diego, thought this was a real loss. In their opinion, doodling enriches communication." So they believed doodling was important for communication but was being lost in digital communication.
3. Finally, "So they put together a tool called UbiSketch. It uses a special pen and paper to automatically create digital doodles that can be shared with friends online."

Combining these points: Most communication is digital now, so people rarely doodle by hand. The students thought doodling is important for communication (it enriches it) but was being lost. Thus, they created UbiSketch to let people doodle (using a special pen/paper) and share digital doodles, bringing back the benefits of doodling to communication.

Answer:

The graduate students created UbiSketch because most communication is digital these days, so people do not doodle by hand. However, the graduate students thought doodling was important for communication (as it enriches communication) but was being lost. So they created a special tool that lets people doodle (with a special pen and paper) and automatically share digital doodles with others online, to bring back the communicative benefits of doodling.