Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Publishing

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

Global Information Systems Lab
ETH Zurich

http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

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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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PaperProof

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iPaper Applications …

PaperWeb Natural History Museum

Lost Cosmonaut (Axel Vogelsang) iTable (Google Earth)

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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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References
 http://www.ipaper.inf.ethz.ch
 Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and
Cross-Media Information Spaces, B. Signer,
Dissertation ETH Zurich Nr. 16218, 2006

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