DocTr: A Unifying Framework for Tracking Physical Documents and Organisational Structures

Sandra Trullemans, Ayrton Vercruysse and Beat Signer

22/06/2016

Personal Information Management

PIM Solutions in Physical Space

DocuDesk - Everitt et al. 2008

DrawerFinder – Komatsuzaki et al. 2011

StackTop - Riemann et al. 2015

SOPHYA - Jervis and Masoodian 2010

Application

Contribution

DocTr

third-party applications

Exploratory User Study

11 participants various professions

Interview

+Introduction to tracking

design requirements

User-centric Design Requirements

R1 - Categories of organisational structures

R2 - Flow of documents and organisational structures

R3 - Custom metadata

R4 - Integration with third-party applications

Technical Requirements

R5 - Unlimited tracking setups

R6 - Integration with a PIM framework

R7 - Managing unique identifiers

DocTr

Integer

SIFT features String

DocTr Framework

DocTr

end user applications

tracking setups

GUI

REST Interface

REST Interface

DocTr Data Model

Integer matrix Integer

SIFT Tag

Integer matrixComparator

IntegerComparator

Timestamp, List<Transactions>

Transaction 1 = “action, remove”Transaction 2= “user, Bob”

source is a pile

targets are documents

Tracking Setups

Registration

• which comparator to use

• new structure

Monitoring

• call to REST endpoints for– update document log

– add

– remove

DocTrDocumentManagement

Document Identification

Delegator Identification Mechanism1

2

3

4

interface Comparator

public PhysicalObject compare(Map<PhysicalObject, List<Object>> Object, );

Pending Pool User InterfaceDesktop Side Panel

Document Browser

Evaluation Setup

T1R T1

A T2R

T3R

T2A

T3A

T4A

T4R

T5R

T5A

Results

T1R T1

A T2R

T3R

T2A

T3A

T4A

T4R

T5A

Future Work

• Optimisation of identification mechanism

• User study

• Integration with third-party applications

Conclusion

DocTr

end user applications

tracking setups

GUI

REST Interface

REST Interface

Tracking of physical documents and organisational structures

Platform for future research on interactive computing systems

References

• S. Trullemans, A. Vercruysse and B. Signer, DocTr: A Unifying Framework for Tracking Physical Documents and Organisational Structures, Proceedings of EICS 2016, 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, Brussels, Belgium, June 2016

– http://beatsigner.com/publications/trullemans_EICS2016.pdf