in Cross-Media Solutions Prof. Beat Signer beatsigner.com Web & Information Systems Engineering Lab Department of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel
layer navigational link associative link weighted link Object 1 Object n Object 2 Context 1 Context n Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept n extent link OC2 conceptual model RSL-based metamodel S. Trullemans and B. Signer, Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel for Context- aware Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems, Proceedings of ER 2014
the logic of the concept: "What You See Is What You Get" is based on printing the document out ("get" means "get WHEN YOU PRINT IT OUT"). And that means a metaphysical shift: a document can only consist of what can be printed! [...] No overlays [...] – PAPER UNDER GLASS. Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way, Mindful Press 2009 Existing document formats often based on the simulation of paper affordances on desktop computers B. Signer, What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Struc- tural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, Proceedings of ER 2010
of structural RSL links ▪ separation of content and structure ▪ Extensible platform ▪ content-based approach ▪ cross-media content reuse via transclusion ▪ non-linear navigation and zoomable user interface ▪ associative linking ▪ rich media types R. Roels and B. Signer, MindXpres: An Extensible Content-driven Cross-Media Presentation Platform, Proceedings of WISE 2014
and rules between IoT devices ▪ Linking any physical artefact to other physical artefacts or digital information and services ▪ use of natural (pointing) gestures and interactions ▪ “drag and drop” between IoT devices Elena Zambon Tangible Holograms (TangHo)
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 A. Vogelsang and B. Signer, The Lost Cosmonaut: An Interactive Narrative En- vironment on Basis of Digitally Enhanced Paper, Proceedings of ICVS 2005
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Granville Island Vancouver Harbour Public Market Keynote J. Thorp Olga and Lamia Dinner ER 2010 multiple classification structural link navigational link My Videos Vancouver Aquarium ER 2010 Keynote cross-media association My Presentations ER 2010 WISE 2009 cross-media transclusion single slide transclusion (via OOXML RSL selector)
Barlingen and B. Willems, Back to the Future: Bringing Original Hyper- media and Cross-Media Concepts to Modern Desktop Environments, Proceedings of Hypertext 2021
June 6, 2023 References ▪ B. Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, Second Edition, ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, August 2017 ▪ B. Signer and M.C. Norrie, As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems, Proceedings of ER 2007, 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2007 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/signer_ER2007.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ B. Signer, Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures, Proceedings of RCIS 2019, 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Brussels, Belgium, May 2019 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/signer_RCIS2019.pdf ▪ B. Signer, M. Grossniklaus and M.C. Norrie, Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-Channel Web Information System, World Wide Web Journal (WWW), Vol. 10, No. 4, Springer, December 2007 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/signer_WWWJ2007.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ S. Trullemans, A. Sanctorum and B. Signer, PimVis: Exploring and Re-finding Documents in Cross- Media Information Spaces, Proceedings of AVI 2016, International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, June 2016 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/trullemans_AVI2016.pdf ▪ S. Trullemans and B. Signer, Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel for Context-aware Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems, Pro- ceedings of ER 2014, 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, Atlanta, USA, October, 2014 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/trullemans_ER2014.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ B. Signer, What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, Proceedings of ER 2010, 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Vancouver, Canada, November 2010 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/signer_ER2010.pdf ▪ R. Roels and B. Signer, MindXpres: An Extensible Content-driven Cross-Media Presentation Platform, Proceedings of WISE 2014, 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2014 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/roels_WISE2014.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ R. Roels and B. Signer, A Conceptual Frame- work and Content Model for Next Generation Presentation Solutions, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), 2019 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/roels_PACMHCI2019.pdf ▪ A. Sanctorum and B. Signer, A Unifying Reference Framework and Model for Adaptive Distributed Hybrid User Interfaces, Proceedings of RCIS 2019, 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Brussels, Belgium, May 2019 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/sanctorum_RCIS2019.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ A. Vogelsang and B. Signer, The Lost Cosmonaut: An Interactive Narrative Environment on Basis of Digitally Enhanced Paper, Proceedings of the Inter- national Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2005, Strasbourg, France, December 2005 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/vogelsang_ICVS2005.pdf ▪ A.A.O. Tayeh, Payam Ebrahimi and Beat Signer, Cross- Media Document Linking and Navigation, Proceedings of DocEng 2018, 18th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Halifax, Canada, August 2018 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/tayeh_DocEng2018.pdf
June 6, 2023 References ... ▪ B. Signer, R. Roels, R. van Barlingen and B. Willems, Back to the Future: Bringing Original Hypermedia and Cross-Media Concepts to Modern Desktop Environments, Proceedings of Hypertext 2021, Virtual Event, August 2021 ▪ https://beatsigner.com/publications/signer_Hypertext2021.pdf