Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries

Presentation given at ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, Denmark.

ABSTRACT: In digital libraries, much of the reading activity is still done on printed copies of documents. We show how digital pen and paper technologies can be used to support readers by automatically creating interactive paper versions of digital documents during the printing process that enable users to activate embedded hyperlinks to other documents and services from printed versions. The approach uses a special printer driver that allows information about hyperlinks to be extracted and stored at print time. Users can then activate hyperlinks in the printed document with a digital pen.

Research paper: https://beatsigner.com/publications/interactive-paper-as-a-reading-medium-in-digital-libraries.pdf

Transcript

1. ECDL 2008, September 16
   Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium
   in Digital Libraries
   Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel
   Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich
   8092 Zurich, Switzerland
   

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2. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide
   

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3. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   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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4. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   Interactive Paper Areas
   Linking active areas to resources
   image
   video clip
   

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5. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   RSL Metamodel and iServer
   

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6. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   PaperWeb
   ▪ Print arbitrary web pages
   with special printer driver
   ▪ Browse the Web on paper
   (interactive hyperlinks)
   ▪ Automatic link authoring
   

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7. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   Different Web Page Layouts
   

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8. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   PaperWeb Architecture
   

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9. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
   Hyperlink Highlighter
   ▪ Operations on DOM tree
   ▪ search for and elements
   ▪ create elements for bounding box and
   link target
   

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10. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
    Hyperlink Analyser
    Fill="#ff000000"
    FontRenderingEmSize="4.32017"
    FontUri="/Documents/1/
    Resources/Fonts/083FE3E4-
    4F2E-85D9-B082CEBD45E.odttf"
    StyleSimulations="None"
    OriginX="54.08"
    OriginY="105.92"
    Indices="40;55;43;3;61;88;
    85;76;70;75"
    UnicodeString="ETH Zurich"/>
    FontUri="/Documents/1/Resources/
    Fonts/06465132-FEA1-401B-92DF-
    F7C4CAF0B03A.odttf"
    FontRenderingEmSize="1.28"
    StyleSimulations="None"
    OriginX="57.92" OriginY="138.56"
    Indices="76,63;71,50;82,50;70,50;
    53,50;72,50;86,62;29,50;75,50;
    87,50;87,50;83,50;29,63;18,50;
    18,50;90,100;90,112;90,100;17,50;
    72,50;87,50;75;93,49;17,50;70,50;
    75,50;18,50;76,63;81,50;71,50;
    72,50;91,50;66,50;40,62;49"
    UnicodeString="idocRes:
    http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN"/>
    Fill="#ffFFFFFF"
    Data="F1 M 54.08, 101.6 L
    78.08, 101.6 78.08,
    106.72 54.08, 106.72 z"/>
    

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11. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
    Query by Sketching (QbS)
    ▪ Paper-based image
    retrieval interface
    ▪ Initial prototype developed
    as part of DELOS
    ▪ Project partners
    ▪ University of Basel
    (Prof. Heiko Schuldt)
    ▪ GlobIS group, ETH Zurich
    

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12. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
    Conclusions
    ▪ Automatic integration of paper documents with
    digital information and services
    ▪ Extensible infrastructure
    ▪ iServer plug-ins
    ▪ iPublish and iDoc plug-ins
    ▪ Future challenges
    ▪ distributed global architecture (e.g. pattern space
    management, document mappings)
    

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13. ECDL 2008, September 16 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
    Further Information
    ▪ 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
    Prof. Moira Norrie Dr. Beat Signer Nadir Weibel Adriana Ispas
    

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