Presentation given at Treffpunkt Publishing, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, January 2008

1. 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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2. Paper in Everyday Settings
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3. Digital Pen and Paper
 Developed by Anoto
 Different pen manufacturers
 Logitech, Maxel, Nokia, ...
 Pattern space
 60 million km2
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4. Interactive Paper
Linking active areas to resources
image
video clip
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5. iPaper @ ETH Zurich
Tools
Cross-Media
Link Infrastructure
Applications
Publishing
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6. EdFest Project
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7. EdFest Demo
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Design of Interactive Paper Documents
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11. Rough Guide
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12. PaperProof
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13. iPaper Applications …
PaperWeb Natural History Museum
Lost Cosmonaut (Axel Vogelsang) iTable (Google Earth)
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14. 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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15. 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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