2. Contents
Background
What do digital technologies need to compete
with paper
Demos
7 innovations which will be significant
3 innovations which might be significant
3. Sellen and Harper (2002) suggests that the
increased amount of information we have
access to increases our need to print more
Printers have gotten cheaper, faster, and better
quality than before.
Print on demand, and people tend to print
rather than photocopy
4. Instead of decreasing our paper
consumption, we have significantly increased
it despite widespread adoption of Digital
Technologies
Why?
Digital technologies (e.g. PCs) don’t have the
same attributes (or affordances) that paper
has
5. What does digital technologies need to
compete with paper?
Quick, flexible navigation through documents
Reading across more than one document at once
Marking up a document while reading
Interweaving reading and writing
[Portability and Accessibility]
The way I like to do things is through examples, and we’ll be showing plenty of them today.So today, I’ll spend about a third of the talk providing some of the history and theory behind the idea of the paperless officeI’m mainly going to draw on Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen’s book on The Myth of the Paperless office but also from the Science and Technology Studies literatureFrom my point of view, there are two “fronts” in the advance of the paperless office. The first is at the Human Computer Interface level – interfaces which has some of the affordances that using paper has. To do that, I’ll present some of the recent HCI innovations that I think has gone some way to achieve this.The second “front” is at the collaborative work level. And this is what I was originally aiming to write my talk on – which is the recent innovations that has happened in Web 2.0 space and what they mean for the paperless office. Before I start, please just ask if there’s something that you don’t understand or something that you want to know more about – especially when I show the examples later on.
Simulating the Desktop to be more like a real desktop ...Bumptop
Multi- touch screens. Has a lot of the affordances that paper has – easy to mark up, two people can work on it at the same time, real physicality to it. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Tagging photos - best example of that was flickr. You can assign keywords to each photo, and you can search for that tag.Tagging of files instead of putting them in folders(Google docs – moved from tagging to folders)
Move to the Cloud -> and moving away from the cloud.Moving to remote desktop to work anywhereBuilt on the premise that web applications will be the predominate type of application that people will interact with.
Basic level – bringing documents online so that multiple people can collaborate and work on them at the same time. Google documents – sharing documents between colleagues. You can see who has edited it – and when. Also does version control. But lacks a lot of features that offline editors have. Allows multiple editors and sharing with collaborators
