Integrating Paper and Digital Information Spaces - The iServer / iPaper Solution

31 March 2008

Integrating Paper and Digital Information Spaces

The iServer / iPaper Solution

Beat Signer

Global Information Systems Group

ETH Zurich

http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner

31 March 2008 Beat Signer <[email protected]> / ETH Zurich DFKI Seminar

Paper in Everyday Settings


Input Devices

31 March 2008 Beat Signer <[email protected]> / ETH Zurich DFKI Seminar44

Digital Pen and Paper

Developed by Anoto

Different pen manufacturers

Logitech, Maxel, Nokia,

Adapx, Livescribe ...

Pattern space

60 million km2


Interactive Paper

Linking active areas to resources

image

video clip


iPaper @ ETH Zurich

Cross-Media

Link Infrastructure

Tools

Publishing

Applications


Interactive Paper Applications

Enhanced Reading

interactive paper maps

interactive festival brochures

educational materials

auction brochures

scientific publications

…

Enhanced Writing

proof-editing system

photo album

researcher's notebook

mammography

search system

…

Paper-Based Interfaces

PaperPoint

image retrieval / digital libraries

video analysis tool

educational games

Artists' Installations

Lost Cosmonaut

Generosa Enterprise

Interactive TableTops

http://www.globis.ethz.ch/research/paper/applications/


PaperPoint Presentation Tool

Mobile presentation tool

Non-linear presentations

Paper-based real-time

annotations

Digital whiteboard

Multi-pen support

brainstorming


EdFest Project


EdFest Demo


EdFest Architecture Overview

XCMcontent publishing

platform

iServer/iPapercross-media

link server

Context

Engine

Client

Controller

Active

Components

Text-to-Speech

EngineICR Software

handwriting

recognition

Metadata DB Appln DB

Link DB

Context DB

iPaper Client


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


Design of Interactive Paper Documents


Rough Guide


PaperProof


Paper-Digital Structural Mapping

Dual document representation in digital and

physical document spaces


Print-n-Link

Citations build the basis

for a scientific web of

publications

Use digital services to

search / retrieve cited

publications

Automatic authoring


Other iPaper Applications …

PaperWeb Natural History Museum

Lost Cosmonaut (Axel Vogelsang) iTable (Google Earth)


Different Types of Link Authoring

Manual authoring of links

Content publishing framework for Interactive Paper

EdFest brochure – PDF and links generated from

publishing database

Automatic authoring of links based on document

analysis (PDF)

Print-n-Link system for scientific publications

Collaborative authoring based on P2P link sharing


Digital Link Authoring Tool


iPaper Architecture


RSL Metamodel and Resource Plug-ins

iPaper

Shape Page

Application Database

DB ObjectData/Metadata

Query

Movie Clips

Time Span /

Spatial InfoMovie Clip

HTML Documents

XPointer XHTML

Document

Selectors

Entities

Resources

link


Links

Users

LayersPlug-ins

Structure

Active

Content


RSL Links


RSL Structural Links


RSL Structural Links …

Structure over data

e.g. regular document (chapters, sections, ...)

reuse of resources transclusion (Ted Nelson)

context-dependant structures

Structure over structures

structural composition of data and substructures can

be combined


RSL Structural Links …

Structure over links

put different navigational links in relation to each other

e.g. single structural link to define linear order over

set of links trails and tours


Active Content

Execute code (services) on the client and server side

Active Component

A

Active Component

B

Active Component

C

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AC Manager

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Stub B

AC Names

ACS Manager

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AC Names

Client

HT

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Active Components

Button

Slider

Slider2D

DateSelector

Browser

MapSelector

Rating

Capture

CaptureAndSpeak

Image

Sound

Movie

SQLClient

XCMRequest

ClientCtrlRequest

PaperPointControl

PaperPointAnnot

...


iServer Interfaces

Java API

XML import and export

Web Service

Interface based on XML and XSLT

XHTML

WAP, i-mode

VoiceXML


Conclusions

General framework for interactive paper

Cross-media information server

extensibility (resource plug-ins)

link service acessible through various APIs

active content

Novel forms of interactive paper publishing and

paper-based user interfaces


References

iPaper webpage

http://www.ipaper.inf.ethz.ch

YouTube videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/ethglobis

Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and

Cross-Media Information Spaces, B. Signer,

Dissertation ETH Zurich Nr. 16218, 2006

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