Interactive Paper

A New Medium for Integrating Paper and

Digital Information in Cross-Media Publications

Beat Signer
Global Information Systems Research Group
ETH Zurich

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Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide

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Digital Pen and Paper
▪ Pattern license and
camera technology
offered by Anoto
▪ virtual paper space of
60 million km2
▪ Pen manufacturers
▪ Nokia
▪ Maxell
▪ Adapx
▪ Livescribe
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Interactive Paper Areas
Linking active areas to resources

image

video clip

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Interactive Paper @ ETH Zurich
Link Metamodel (RSL) Tools

Cross-Media Server / Publishing Applications

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RSL Metamodel and iServer

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EdFest Project

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EdFest Demo

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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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PaperProof

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PaperPoint Presentation Tool
▪ Mobile presentation tool
▪ Non-linear presentations
▪ Paper-based real-time
annotations
▪ Digital whiteboard
▪ Multi-pen support
▪ brainstorming

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PaperWeb
▪ Print arbitrary web pages
with special printer driver
▪ All hyperlinks become
interactive in the printed
document

▪ Automatic authoring of
links

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DiDA

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PaperSketch

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Pulse Smartpen
▪ Record and replay
synchronised ink & audio
▪ 1 GB memory
▪ 16'000 pages
▪ 200 hours voice recording
▪ 96x18 OLED Display
▪ Open application platform

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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
▪ research prototypes (e.g. iServer/iPaper platform)
▪ Future challenges
▪ business models and solutions
▪ integration with existing publishing processes and
global publishing infrastructures
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Further Information

Prof. Moira Norrie Dr. Beat Signer Nadir Weibel Adriana Ispas

▪ http://www.ipaper.inf.ethz.ch
▪ Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper
and Cross-Media Information Spaces, Beat
Signer, ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, May 2008
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