Switching over to Paper: A New Web Channel

Presentation given at WISE 2003, 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy.

ABSTRACT: We present a general web-based information infrastructure capable of supporting the rapid development of highly interactive information environments that cater for widely varying requirements across application domains and all forms of fixed and mobile client devices. In particular, we describe how this infrastructure has been extended to support digitally augmented paper through a special transformation component that can map active areas of document pages to information objects so that user- and context-dependent interaction can be supported. Our infrastructure is sufficiently general and flexible to adapt to, not only emerging and even unanticipated technologies in the area of interactive paper, but also the rapidly expanding interaction sphere of hypermedia.

Research paper: https://beatsigner.com/publications/norrie_WISE2003.pdf

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1. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Switching over to Paper: A New Web Channel Moira C. Norrie Beat Signer Global Information Systems Research Group ETH Zurich Switzerland WISE 2003, 12 December, 2003
2. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Outline Motivation Paper++ integration of digital and printed information iServer open hypermedia infrastructure for mixed-media integration Cross-media authoring Applications
3. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland The Myth of the Paperless Office
4. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Enriching the use of paper in everyday settings EU Project (Disappearing Computer Programme) Arjo Wiggins
5. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Document Encoding page number, x and y position Use RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification) for document identification Use translucent conduc- tive ink to print a grid of position information on paper Information: (DocID, pageNo, x, y)
6. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Active Areas Linking of active areas to resource files image video clip
7. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Layers Layer 10 Layer 5 Anchor 1 Anchor 2 P(x,y) Can introduce layers such that shapes belong to a layer and we return shape of “top active layer”
8. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Mixed-Media Platform Paper++ Shape Page Application Database DB Object Data/Metadata Query Movie Clips Time Span / Spatial Info Movie Clip HTML Documents XPointer XHTML Document Selectors Entities Resources link
9. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer with Paper++ Plug-in parameter Properties parameter Prefs layer |Layers| layer Active Layers link Links selector Selectors shape Shapes partition (2,*) (0,*) rectangle Rectangles ellipse Ellipses polygon Polygons circle Circles complexShape Complex Shapes HasShapes page Pages resource Resources user Users group Groups resource Containers document Docs textComp Texts medium Media medium Movies medium Images medium Webpages OnPage RefersTo OnLayer HasProperties Contains Contains Pages individual Individuals HasMembers HasPrefs entity Entities AccessibleTo CreatedBy HasTarget HasAnchor (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (1,1) (0,*) (0,*) (1,1) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (0,*) (1,*) (0,*) (0,*) (1,1) (1,1) (0,*) (1,1) (0,*) partition partition (1,*) User Resource Link Paper ++
10. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland iServer Open hypermedia system for mixed-media integration General extensible link manager bidirectional links nested links links over links integrated user management ... Linking of arbitrary physical and digital resources
11. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Architecture HTTP request (ID, page, (x,y)) HTTP response encoded location Augmented Document Barcode Transformer and Output Device XIMA Server iServer with Paper++ Extension iSERVER
12. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Paper++ Authoring Link Authoring link sharing presentation of links derived links Content Authoring possible use of general content management solutions Various open authoring issues paper-based authoring ...
13. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland
14. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Derived Paper to Paper Links Derivation of links from inverse mapping of resources to areas Digitally Augmented Paper This is an example paragraph of text that is selectable within this page. Nature Database Animals Countries
15. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Zurich City Map
16. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Augmented Research Papers
17. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mammography Annotations
18. Global Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ongoing Work Collaborative link authoring and knowledge sharing (P2P version of iServer) iServer media plug-ins (XHTML, movie clips, sound files, still images, ...) Combination of enhanced reading and enhanced writing Digitally augmented paper as output channel of content management