Presentation given at DELOS Demo Day, February 2006

1. Linking Paper and Digital Media
Beat Signer
Institute for Information Systems
ETH Zurich
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
1 February 2006

2. The Myth of the Paperless Office
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3. Integrating Paper and Digital Media
 Enriching the use of paper in everyday settings
 Interactive paper framework (iPaper) developed
as part of Paper++ and PaperWorks project
 information-centric approach supports different
technologies, functionalities and applications
 Platform for general cross-media information
management (iServer)
 resource plug-in mechanism
 semantic resources and active content
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4. iServer Cross-Media Platform
link
Entities
Selectors Resources
Shape Page Query DB Object
Time Span / Movie Clip XPointer XHTML
Data/Metadata
Spatial Info Document
iPaper Application Database
Movie Clips HTML Documents
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5. iSERVER
iServer
Links link parameter
(1,*) (1,*) Has (0,*)
HasSource Links HasTarget Preferences
Preferences
(0,*) (0,*)
(0,*)
parameter entity (0,*) AccessibleTo (0,*) user
(0,*) (0,*) (0,*)
Properties HasProperties Entities (0,*)
(0,*)
Users HasMembers
(1,1)
InaccessibleTo
Layers partition
partition
(0,*)
layer individual group
(0,*) (0,*)
|Layers| OnLayer CreatedBy Individuals Groups
Users
layer
(1,1) Plug-ins
selector resource
Active (1,1) (0,*) (0,*)
Selectors RefersTo Resources Contains
Layers
(0,*)
Resources
iPAPER page resource textComp medium
(0,*)
OnPage Pages Containers Texts Media
(1,1)
shape
(0,*)
Shapes HasShapes (1,1)
medium
document
Contains (0,*) Movies
partition (2,*) Documents
Pages
rectangle polygon ellipse circle complexShape medium medium
Complex
Rectangles Polygons Ellipses Circles Images Webpages
Shapes
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6. iPaper Architecture
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7. Anoto Technology
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8. PaperPoint
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9. Natural History Museum, London
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10. Augmented Research Papers
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11. Diploma in Digital Applications (DiDA)
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12. EdFest 2005 Components
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13. EdFest 2005 User Trials
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14. EdFest 2005 User Trials ...
 Multiple interactive paper documents
 Map locator functionality
 Event rating and reminder
 Printed event lists
 Bookmark with query and reservation functionality
 Voice feedback
 Pen and earpiece using Bluetooth
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15. Mammography Annotations
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16. The Lost Cosmonaut
 Writing as a collaborative
act of memory and story-
telling
 Reading, writing and
narrative as an act of
making sense
 Handwriting as a tool for
human computer
interaction
In collaboration with Axel Vogelsang,
Artists in Labs Programme
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17. Generosa Enterprise
 Interactive drawing installation
 Exhibited at the 150 Years ETH Zurich Jubilee (more
than 200'000 visitors)
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18. Document Editing
 Digital and paper-based user interface
 Support for collaborative editing
 Multiple digital/physical editing iteration cycles
Digital Document
Printed Document
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