Presentation given at CSCW Seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2008

1. Collaborating over Paper and Digital Media
Interactive Paper Applications @ ETH Zurich
Beat Signer, Nadir Weibel, Adriana Ispas and Moira C. Norrie
Global Information Systems Research Group
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008

2. The "Paperless Office" (2003)
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

3. Digital Pen and Paper
 Developed by Anoto
 Different pen manufacturers
 Logitech, Maxel, Nokia,
Adapx, Livescribe ...
 Pattern space
 60 million km2
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

4. Natural History Museum, London
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

5. Natural History Museum, London ...
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6. Natural History Museum, London ...
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

7. Mammography Annotations
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8. DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications)
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9. Edinburgh Fringe Festival
 World's largest
international arts festival
 4 weeks
 ~1700 events
 ~27000 performances
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

10. EdFest Project
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11. EdFest Demo
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12. Rough Guide
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13. Document Editing
 Support for collaborative editing
 Digital and paper-based user interface
 Multiple digital/physical editing iteration cycles
Digital Document
Printed Document
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

14. PaperProof
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

15. Paper-Digital Structural Mapping
 Dual document representation in digital and
physical document spaces
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

16. The Lost Cosmonaut
 Writing as a collaborative
act of memory and story-
telling
 Reading, writing and
narrative as an act of
making sense
 Handwriting as a tool for
human computer
interaction
In collaboration with Axel Vogelsang,
Artists in Labs Programme
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

17. The Lost Cosmonaut …
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18. The Lost Cosmonaut …
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19. Interactive Table (iTable)
Pen-Based Google Earth Browser Pen-Based Drawing Tool
Photo Browser Photo Browser (Slider)
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

20. Interactive Table (iTable) …
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21. Remote Sketching on Paper
 Integration of Skype and
paper-based remote
sketching, Hermann
Hofstetter
 HCI group University of
Konstanz, H. Reiterer
 GlobIS group
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

22. PaperPoint Presentation Tool
 Mobile presentation tool
 Non-linear presentations
 Paper-based real-time
annotations
 Digital whiteboard
 Multi-pen support
 brainstorming
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

23. Pulse Smartpen
 Record and replay
synchronised ink & audio
 1 GB memory
 16'000 pages
 200 hours voice recording
 96x18 OLED Display
 Open application platform
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

24. iPaper @ ETH Zurich
Tools
Cross-Media
Link Infrastructure
Applications
Publishing
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

25. Student Projects
 Various semester projects and Master Theses
on different levels: information architecture,
authoring infrastructure, applications
 New student projects together with the
Innovation Center Virtual Reality (ICVR)
 integration of Anoto technology into LC displays
 development of new Anoto-based interaction devices
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch

26. References
 The Myth of the Paperless Office, A.J. Sellen
and R. Harper, MIT Press, November 2001
 Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents
in the Digital Age, D.M. Levy, October 2001
 Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and
Cross-Media Information Spaces, B. Signer,
ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, May 2008
 http://www.ipaper.ethz.ch
CSCW Seminar, May 27, 2008 Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch