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Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium

in Digital Libraries

Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel

Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich

8092 Zurich, Switzerland

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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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RSL Metamodel and iServer

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PaperWeb

Print arbitrary web pages

with special printer driver

Browse the Web on paper

(interactive hyperlinks)

Automatic link authoring

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Different Web Page Layouts

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PaperWeb Architecture

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Hyperlink Highlighter

Operations on DOM tree

search for <a href> and <area> elements

create <div> elements for bounding box and

link target

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Hyperlink Analyser

<Glyphs

Fill="#ff000000"

FontRenderingEmSize="4.32017"

FontUri="/Documents/1/

Resources/Fonts/083FE3E4-

4F2E-85D9-B082CEBD45E.odttf"

StyleSimulations="None"

OriginX="54.08"

OriginY="105.92"

Indices="40;55;43;3;61;88;

85;76;70;75"

UnicodeString="ETH Zurich"/>

<Glyphs Fill="#ffFFFFFF"

FontUri="/Documents/1/Resources/

Fonts/06465132-FEA1-401B-92DF-

F7C4CAF0B03A.odttf"

FontRenderingEmSize="1.28"

StyleSimulations="None"

OriginX="57.92" OriginY="138.56"

Indices="76,63;71,50;82,50;70,50;

53,50;72,50;86,62;29,50;75,50;

87,50;87,50;83,50;29,63;18,50;

18,50;90,100;90,112;90,100;17,50;

72,50;87,50;75;93,49;17,50;70,50;

75,50;18,50;76,63;81,50;71,50;

72,50;91,50;66,50;40,62;49"

UnicodeString="idocRes:

http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN"/>

<Path

Fill="#ffFFFFFF"

Data="F1 M 54.08, 101.6 L

78.08, 101.6 78.08,

106.72 54.08, 106.72 z"/>

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Query by Sketching (QbS)

Paper-based image

retrieval interface

Initial prototype developed

as part of DELOS

Project partners

University of Basel

(Prof. Heiko Schuldt)

GlobIS group, ETH Zurich

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Conclusions

Automatic integration of paper documents with

digital information and services

Extensible infrastructure

iServer plug-ins

iPublish and iDoc plug-ins

Future challenges

distributed global architecture (e.g. pattern space

management, document mappings)

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Further Information

http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

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