Dr. Adriana Ispas

Adriana's research focuses on interactive paper. In particular, she is interested in how this technology might be used to support natural notetaking. She successfully defended her PhD thesis "Beyond the Digital Capture of Paper Notes: Investigations of Enhanced Natural Notetaking based on Digital Pen and Paper Technology" in December 2011 and continued her work in the GlobIS group as a Post Doctoral researcher in 2012.

A short media coverage on the technology, as well the some of the work we did can be found in SF's reportage "Der digitale Kugelschreiber" : link.

General research interests: Interactive Paper, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Personal Information Management, Ubiquitous and Tangible Computing, Multimodal Interaction.

Background

Adriana is originally from Cluj-Napoca, a town in the heart of Transilvania, Romania. She received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.
Adriana developed her diploma thesis “Consistency Maintenance over XML Documents in Asynchronous Collaborative Editing” within the Global Information Systems Group, ETH Zurich, as a visiting student. She joined the Global Information Systems Group in October 2006 as an Academic Guest and started her PhD in 2007.

Projects

Student Advisor

Student Projects

• Sonia Marginean, Towards a Creative Information Environment using Livescribe, Diploma Thesis, June 2009
• Nan Li, Supporting Collaboration in Meetings based on Interactive Paper Documents and a Tabletop Surface, Master Thesis, December 2009
• Tobias Heinzen, Interactive Paper-Based Note Taking in Offline Scenarios, Bachelor Thesis, January 2010
• Sarah Schoeni, Reminding about Handwritten Paper-Based Notes - An Investigation of Notes Visualisation Solutions, Bachelor Thesis, April 2011
• Pierre-Olivier Trabichet, From WordPress to a General Platform for Information Management and Sharing, Master Thesis, August 2011
• Davide Arrigo, Document Mash-up on a Tabletop Surface, Master Thesis, March 2013 (expected date)
• Andjela Markovic, Solutions for Lightweight Information Presentation, Bachelor Thesis, December 2012 (expected date)

Open Projects

• Digital pen and paper technologies and ambient displays (Masters/Semester)
• Extending interactive tabletops with physical interfaces (Masters)

More details can be found here.

Teaching

• HCI course - Autumn Term 2011.
• CSCW Seminar - Summer Term 2011.
• Informatik I (D-BAUG) - Autumn Term 2010.
• Informatik II (D-BAUG) - Summer Term 2010.
• CSCW Seminar - Summer Term 2010.
• Informatik I (D-BAUG) - Autumn Term 2009.
• Informatik II (D-BAUG) - Summer Term 2009.
• CSCW Seminar - Summer Term 2009.
• Information Systems (Advanced Course) - Autumn Term 2008.
• Advanced Topics on Information Systems Seminar - Autumn Term 2008.
• Java Programming (Languages in Depth series) - Summer Term 2008.
• CSCW Seminar - Summer Term 2008.
• Information Systems (Advanced Course) - Autumn Term 2007.
• CSCW Seminar - Summer Term 2007.
• Information Systems (Advanced Course) - Winter Term 2006/2007.

Publications

• Adriana Ispas, Sarah Schoeni and Moira C. Norrie, ARENO: Ambient REminder NOtes, Proc. 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2012), Melbourne, Australia, November 2012
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• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie, Nadir Weibel and Adriana Ispas, Advanced Authoring of Paper-Digital Systems: Introducing Templates and Variable Content Elements for Interactive Paper Publishing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, pub. Springer, August, 2012
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• Adriana Ispas, Beyond the Digital Capture of Paper Notes: Investigations of Enhanced Natural Notetaking based on Digital Pen and Paper Technology , Diss. ETH No. 20157, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2011.
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• Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, An Extensible Digital Ink Segmentation and Classification Framework for Natural Notetaking, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, (EICS 2011) Pisa, Italy, June 2011
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• Adriana Ispas, Nan Li, Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Paper-Digital Meeting Support and Review, In Proceedings of CollaborateCom 2010, 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing, Chicago, USA, October 2010
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• Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, A Study of Incidental Notetaking to Inform Digital Pen and Paper Solutions, In Proceedings of HCI 2010, 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Dundee, Scotland, September 2010
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• Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, An Extensible Framework for Personal Cross-Media Information Management, In Proceedings of Workshop on Cross-Media Information Analysis, Extraction and Management, Koblenz, Germany, December 2008
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• Nadir Weibel, Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, PaperProof: A Paper-Digital Proof-Editing System, In Proceedings of CHI 2008, 26th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Interactivity Track, Florence, Italy, April 2008
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• Michael Springmann, Adriana Ispas, Heiko Schuldt, Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Towards Query by Sketch, Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, Pisa, Italy, December 2007
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