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Interactive Paper

Beat Signer

Global Information Systems Research Group

ETH Zurich

A New Medium for Integrating Paper and

Digital Information in Cross-Media Publications

http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

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Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide

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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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Interactive Paper Areas

Linking active areas to resources

image

video clip

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Interactive Paper @ ETH Zurich

Link Metamodel (RSL) Tools

Cross-Media Server / Publishing Applications

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RSL Metamodel and iServer

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EdFest Project

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EdFest Demo

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Content Publishing Framework

XCMcontent publishing

XML data of

festival venues

and events

iServer / iPapercross-media link server

• paper link data

• active areas

• layers

• digital resources

• user model

import

publish

PDF

XML link

definition

data

iPublishpublishing framework

Structure Style

XSL CSS

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Design of Interactive Paper Documents

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PaperProof

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PaperPoint Presentation Tool

Mobile presentation tool

Non-linear presentations

Paper-based real-time

annotations

Digital whiteboard

Multi-pen support

brainstorming

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PaperWeb

Print arbitrary web pages

with special printer driver

All hyperlinks become

interactive in the printed

document

Automatic authoring of

links

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DiDA

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PaperSketch

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Pulse Smartpen

Record and replay

synchronised ink & audio

1 GB memory

16'000 pages

200 hours voice recording

96x18 OLED Display

Open application platform

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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

research prototypes (e.g. iServer/iPaper platform)

Future challenges

business models and solutions

integration with existing publishing processes and

global publishing infrastructures

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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