the Paperless Office ▪ For decades, people have predicted the office of the future as a paperless office ▪ documents generated, published and distributed electronically ▪ documents read electronically ▪ What has happened to this imminent revolution?
▪ The physical properties of an object determine how people use that object ▪ Properties of paper ▪ light, flexible, robust, porous, opaque, transparent, …. ▪ Human actions ▪ grasping, folding, tearing, carrying, writing, on …. ▪ Paper supports forms of collaboration and interaction difficult to mimic in the digital world
Space ▪ Embedding computing functionality in everyday objects instead of digitising the physical environment At breakfast Sal reads the news. She still prefers the paper form, as do most people. She spots an interesting quote from a columnist in the business section. She wipes her pen over the newspaper’s name, date, section, and page number and then circles the quote. The pen sends a message to the paper, which transmits the quote to her office. The Computer for the 21st Century, Weiser, 1991
Back et al.) ▪ Combines the look and feel of a real book with an interactive soundtrack ▪ RFID tags embedded in each page ▪ Electric field sensors in the book binding
▪ Capture form data ▪ data is processed and stored in a database ▪ Applications ▪ policies ▪ hospitals ▪ transporation ▪ ... ▪ No real-time interaction!
Myth of the Paperless Office, A.J. Sellen and R. Harper, MIT Press, November 2001 ▪ Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, D.M. Levy, October 2001 ▪ Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, B. Signer, Diss ETH Zurich Nr. 16218, 2006 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/interactive-paper.html
Empty Stickers linked to specific PowerPoint slides ▪ Digital information (text, image, movie, ...) embedded in slides ▪ Mock-ups for interactive paper applications
Digital and paper-based user interface ▪ Support for collaborative editing ▪ Multiple digital/physical editing iteration cycles Digital Document Printed Document
▪ 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