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 <Glyphs Fill="#ffFFFFFF"
Fill="#ff000000" FontUri="/Documents/1/Resources/
FontRenderingEmSize="4.32017" Fonts/06465132-FEA1-401B-92DF-
FontUri="/Documents/1/ F7C4CAF0B03A.odttf"
Resources/Fonts/083FE3E4- FontRenderingEmSize="1.28"
4F2E-85D9-B082CEBD45E.odttf" StyleSimulations="None"
StyleSimulations="None" OriginX="57.92" OriginY="138.56"
OriginX="54.08"
OriginY="105.92" Indices="76,63;71,50;82,50;70,50;
Indices="40;55;43;3;61;88; 53,50;72,50;86,62;29,50;75,50;
85;76;70;75" 87,50;87,50;83,50;29,63;18,50;
UnicodeString="ETH Zurich"/> 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;
<Path 72,50;91,50;66,50;40,62;49"
Fill="#ffFFFFFF"
Data="F1 M 54.08, 101.6 L UnicodeString="idocRes:
78.08, 101.6 78.08, http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN"/>
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
Prof. Moira Norrie Dr. Beat Signer Nadir Weibel Adriana Ispas
 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
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