PAD
Recent Developments and Future Work
Beat Signer
Global Information Systems Research Group
ETH Zurich
http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008

Outlook
 Ongoing PAD projects
 iServer, iPaper and iGesture developments
 PAD events 2008
 Future work
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

PaperPoint v1.0 beta
 New features
 printing
 recorder / player
 multi-pen support
 customisable handouts
 presentation selector
 installer
 Various new users
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PaperPoint Prototype 1
 Study (interviews), Elke
 highlight / annotate
 blank sheets
 video controls
 mobile system
 orientation within slides
 slide context (nearby slides)
 Evaluation of prototype
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Interactive Table (iTable)
Pen-Based Google Earth Browser Pen-Based Drawing Tool
Photo Browser Photo Browser (Slider)
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Interactive Table (iTable) …
 Calibration
 Multi-pen interactions
 zooming
 rotating
 Java implementation of the TUIO protocol
 based on OpenSound Control (OSC) protocol
 two types of objects
- identifiable object
- cursor object
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Interactive Table (iTable) …
 two types of messages sent over UDP
- set message
- alive message
 Active components sending TUIO messages
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Interactive Table (iTable) …
 New Anoto-based
interaction devices
 student project
 collaboration with inspire
 Seamless transition between digital interactive table
space and paper documents
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Paper-based Semantic Desktop Interface
 Collaboration with DFKI
Kaiserslautern
 Paper interface for PIM
based on
Marcus Liwicki, Kinga Schumacher, Andreas Dengel, Nadir Weibel,
Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Pen and Paper-based Interaction
with the Semantic Desktop, Proceedings of DAS 2008, 8th IAPR
International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Nara, Japan,
September 2008
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Paper-based Powerwall Interface
 Facts
 5.20 m x 2.5 m
 8 beamers
 4640 x 1920 pixels
 soft-edge-blending
 HCI Group University of Konstanz
 Input devices
 3D tracker, laser "pen", mouse
 New paper-based interface (iPaper)
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

PaperSketch
 Integration of Skype and
paper-based remote
sketching, Hermann
Hofstetter
 HCI Group University of
Konstanz, H. Reiterer
 GlobIS group
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Interactive Web 2.0 Business Cards
contacts DB (Avon)
 Student project, Katinka
Kromwijk
 Autoring challenges
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Query by Sketching (QbS)
 Pen-based sketching
interface
 University of Basel
 GlobIS group
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iPaper Developments
 Java-based Bluetooth connection
 Multi-pen support
 Variable content elements
 Printing
 integration with 3rd party applications
 black colour reduction
 Authoring tool
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iServer / iPaper Authoring Tool
 Design tool
 Templates
 Active components
 Variable content elements
 Pen-based authoring
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

iGesture
 Open Source
 initial release in Feb 2007
 >2600 downloads
 Complete GUI redesign
 Wii Remote contribution
 New users
 Allpen GmbH
 …
http://www.igesture.org
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Geco (Gesture Controller)
 Mapping of gestures
(iGesture gesture sets),
Michele Croci
 hotkeys
 command line calls
 …
 Initial release (freeware)
planned soon ...
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PAD Events 2008
 Maturandentage
 ETH Unterwegs
 Informatica08, "Fit in It" roadshows
 Treffpunkt Publishing, Berufsschule für
Gestaltung, Zurich
 CHI Interactivity
 Y-Toolbox, Workshop about Paper, Berne
University of Arts
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PAD Events 2008 …
 Interactive Paper Seminar, DFKI
 Jazoon
 PaperProof
 iGesture
 Treffpunkt Publishing, Berne, August
 Informatica08, “Tag der Informatik“, August
 Maturandentage, September
 Swiss Publishing Week, September
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Future Work
 iServer
 distribution / deployment
 structural components
 annotations
 link sharing (peer-to-peer)
 active components
 alternative architectures
 API refactoring
 scalability
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Future Work …
 iServer / iPaper Authoring
 structural components
 external applications
 variable content elements
 printing
 iServer plug-ins
 iWeb
 iServer / iPaper software releases?
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

Pulse Smartpen
 Record and replay
synchronised ink & audio
 1 GB memory
 16'000 pages
 200 hours voice recording
 96x18 OLED Display
 Open application platform
GlobIS Workshop, July 10, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch