Interactive Paper @ ETH Zurich

Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer, Adriana Ispas, Nadir Weibel

Global Information Systems Lab

Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

29 November 2007
Paper in Everyday Settings

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Digital Pen and Paper
▪ Developed by Anoto
▪ Different pen manufacturers
▪ Logitech, Maxel, Nokia, ...

▪ Pattern space
▪ 60 million km2

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Interactive Paper
Linking active areas to resources

image

video clip

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iPaper @ ETH Zurich
Tools
Cross-Media
Link Infrastructure

Applications
Publishing

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EdFest Project

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EdFest Demo

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EdFest Architecture Overview
Context XCM
content publishing
Engine platform

Context DB Metadata DB Appln DB

Text-to-Speech
Engine Client
ICR Software
Controller handwriting
recognition

iServer/iPaper Active
iPaper Client
cross-media Components
link server

Link DB

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Content Publishing Framework
iServer / iPaper
cross-media link server

XCM XML link

iPublish
definition
content publishing publishing framework
data
• paper link data
publish • active areas
Structure Style • layers
• digital resources
• user model
import PDF

XML data of XSL CSS

festival venues
and events

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Design of Interactive Paper Documents

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Rough Guide

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PaperWeb Print-n-Link

The Myth of the

Paperless Office,
written by A. J.
Sellen and
R. Harper,
November 2001

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PaperProof

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Concluding Remarks
▪ Digital Pen and Paper technology is here
▪ several commercial products and applications
▪ mainly used for data capture from forms
▪ Interactive Paper is on the way
▪ beginnings of commercial solutions
▪ potential shown in research settings
▪ general platforms and tools emerging

▪ Future challenges
▪ business models and solutions
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