Signer, Beat, Prof. Dr.

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Beat Signer is Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. His research focuses on interactive paper and cross-media information systems. As part of his PhD thesis, he investigated fundamental concepts for interactive paper and cross-media information spaces resulting in the general resource-selector-link (RSL) metamodel that generalises document and open hypermedia models. The iServer platform represents our implementation of the RSL model that can be extended by different resource plug-ins for integrating different types of physical and digital media.

As part of the European Paper++ and PaperWorks projects, Beat developed the interactive paper (iPaper) framework for integrating paper and digital services and information. Different solutions for innovative forms of interactive paper document publishing have been realised and the iPaper framework has been applied in a variety of applications including PaperPoint, EdFest, Generosa Enterprise, the Lost Cosmonaut, Print-n-Link, PaperProof and other solutions. We also recently released iGesture a general framework for gesture recognition under an open source license. Based on the experience that we gained from realising the interactive paper applications, Beat is currently investigating general design patterns and paper widgets for the new type of paper-digital user interfaces.

More recently, Beat started to extend the RSL metamodel, to deal not only with navigational cross-media linking, but also enable the structural representation of new forms of cross-media documents and information spaces. Furthermore, the open source iGesture framework is currently extended to support new types of gestures (e.g. 3D gestures).

General research interests: Interactive Paper and Paper-based User Interfaces, Web Information Systems, Cross-Media Information Systems, Multimodal Interaction, Document Engineering, Ubiquitous and Tangible Computing, Object Databases, Software Engineering.

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Curriculum Vitae

Background

Beat studied computer science at ETH Zurich and did his Diploma Thesis (M.Sc.) in the Global Information Systems group. In his project, he developed an object-oriented GUI for the object model multi-user extended file system (GOMES). Based on XML-RPC a remote object mechanism was designed and employed in order to communicate in a machine and programming language independent manner allowing the Java-based GOMES application to use the whole functionality of the extended file system implemented in Oberon. He finished his PhD thesis on fundamental concepts for interactive paper and cross-media information spaces in August 2005.

Recently Published Books

Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces by Beat Signer

Book Description
While there have been dramatic increases in the use of digital technologies for information storage, processing and delivery over the last twenty years, the affordances of paper have ensured its retention as a key information medium. In this book we review a wide variety of projects and technological developments for bridging the paper-digital divide. We present our information-centric approach for a tight integration of paper and digital information that builds on a general cross-media information platform. Different innovative augmented paper applications that have been developed based on our interactive paper platform and Anoto Digital Pen and Paper technology are introduced. For example, these applications include a mobile interactive paper-based tourist information system (EdFest) and a paper-digital presentation tool (PaperPoint). Challenges and solutions for new forms of interactive paper and cross-media publishing are discussed. The book is targeted at developers and researchers in information systems, hypermedia and human computer interaction, professionals from the printing and publishing industry as well as readers with a general interest in the future of paper.

List Price: €42.00
Hardcover: 276 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3837027139
ISBN-13: 978-3-8370-2713-6
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches, 22 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm

Projects

Ongoing Projects

• MobiCraNT: Second Generation Mobile Cross-media Applications - Scalability, Heterogeneity and Legacy, IWOIB Strategic Platform Project.
• Toward Cognitive Adaptive Edu-games, Horizontal Activity (HOA).
• iRead, Initiative to improve teaching aids for rural areas of India in collaboration with the bj institute.
• iServer, Cross-media Information Platform supporting the integration of physical and digital content.
• iPaper, Interactive Paper framework for integrating paper and digital services and information.
• PaperPoint, A paper-based presentation and lecture recording tool for PowerPoint.
• Query by Sketching (QbS), A paper-based query interface for image retrieval.
• PaperProof, A paper-digital proof-editing system.
• iGesture, general gesture recognition framework.
• geco (Gesture Controller), An application for mapping mouse or pen-based gestures to short key presses and system commands.

Past Projects

• PaperWorks, European research project investigating how paper can be interweaved with digital information.
• DELOS, Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.
• Paper++, European research project investigating the integration of paper and digital media (part of the Disappearing Computer Initiative).
• EdFest, Mobile information system for visitors to the Edinburgh festivals based on an interactive, digitally augmented paper guide.
• The Lost Cosmonaut, Interactive Narrative based on interactive paper (part of the Artists in Labs programme by the HGKZ Zurich).
• Generosa Enterprise, Interactive installation for the 150 Years ETH Jubilee based on interactive paper.
• XIMA, eXtensible Information Management Architecture enabling Universal Client Access to information based on XML and XSLT technologies.

Professional Memberships

• SI, Swiss Informatics Society
• ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM SIGWEB, Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web
• ACM SIGCHI, Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction
• IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• IEEE Computer Society
• ERCIM, Working Group on Data and Information Spaces
• Digital Pen and Paper Society

Activities

Programme Committees

• DATAVIEW 2011, 2nd International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web, Lugano, Switzerland, September 2011.
• ICPCA 2011, 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, October 2011.
• TPDL 2011, 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Berlin, Germany, September 2011.
• TEI 2011, 5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Funchal, Portugal, January 2010.
• PaperComp 2010, 1st International Workshop on Paper Computing, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2010.
• Dataview 2010, 1st International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web, Crete, Greece, October 2010.
• TEI 2010, 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, USA, January 2010.
• SAAKM 2009, Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup
  Workshop, Redondo Beach, USA, September 2009.
• TEI 2009, 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 2009.
• CMTA '09, 1st International Workshop on Cross-Media Technologies and Applications, Fukuoka, Japan, March 2009.
• ICPCA 2008, 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2008.
• TEI 2008, 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Bonn, Germany, February 2008.
• CoPADD 2007, 2nd International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, London, UK, November 2007.
• SAAKM 2007, Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop, Whistler, Canada, October 2007.
• ICPCA 2007, 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 2007.
• CoPADD 2006, 1st International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, Banff, Canada, November 2006.

Reviewer

• IJHCS, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies.
• CHI 2011, 29th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
• IJSWIS, International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems.
• SNF, Swiss National Science Foundation.
• IEEE Pervasive Computing, Journal on research and practice in mobile and ubiquitous computing.
• CHI 2010, 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA, April 2010.
• ITS 2009, International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Banff, Canada, November 2009.
• UIST 2009, 22nd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software, Victoria, Canada, October 2009.
• CHI 2009, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, USA, April 2009.
• IJART, International Journal of Arts and Technology.
• ACM TOCHI, ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction.
• IEEE TLT, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
• UIST 2007, 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software, Newport, USA, October 2007.
• The Computer Journal, British Computer Society.
• Information Sciences, International Journal on Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications.
• UbiComp 2006, 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orange County, USA, September 2006.
• WWW 2006, 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006.
• TableTop 2006, 1st IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, Adelaine, Australia, January 2006.
• IJCIS, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems.

Session Chair

• ICOODB 2009, 2nd International Conference on Object Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2009.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

• Tutorial Chair of ICOODB 2010, 3rd International Conference on Objects and Databases, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, September 2010.
• Co-chair of TASIM 2010, 1st International Workshop on New Technologies and Systems for Information Management, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2010.
• Local organiser of CAiSE'01, 13th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 2001.

Editor

• CoPADD 2007, 2nd International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, London, UK, November 2007.
• CoPADD 2006, 1st International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, Banff, Canada, November 2006.

PhD Juries

• Adriana Ispas, Solutions for Natural Notetaking based on Paper-Digital Technologies ETH Zurich.
• Jorge Vallejos, Modularising Context Dependency and Group Behaviour in Ambient-oriented Programming Vrije Universiteit Brussel, June 2011.
• Michael Spranger, The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language Vrije Universiteit Brussel, April 2011.
• Andres Yie, A Non-invasive Approach for Evolving Model Transformation Chains, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 2011.
• Mario Sanchez, Executable Models for Extensible Workflow Engines, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 2011.
• Oscar Gonzales, Monitoring and Analysis of Workflow Applications: A Domain-specific Language Approach, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, September 2010.
• Joris Bleys, Language Strategies for the Domain of Colour, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, June 2010.
• Sven Van Segbroeck, Complex Dynamics in Adaptive Networks, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, April.
• Feng Liu, Biological Literature Miner - Gene Normalization and Interaction Article Classification, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 2010.
• Yifei Chen, Biological Literature Miner - Gene Mention Recognition and Protein-Protein Pair Extraction, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February 2010.
• Yan Tang, On Semantic Decision Tables, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, October 2009.

Invited Talks

• The Future of Computers and the Internet, Mens en computer in 2030?, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, March 24, 2011. »»
• Paper-Digital User Interfaces - Applications, Frameworks and Future Challenges, User Interface Colloquium, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, November 2, 2009. »»
• Interaktives Papier - Ein neues Medium zur Integration von Papier und digitalen Medien in crossmedialen Publikationen, Swiss Publishing Week, Hotel Banana City, Winterthur, Switzerland, September 19, 2008. »»
• Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Publishing, Zukunft Crossmedia - Publishers Zukunft?, Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel, Bern, Switzerland, August 28, 2008. »»
• Interactive Paper - Introduction and Basic Technology & Interactive Paper - Applications and Future Developments, Y-Toolbox, Workshop about Paper, Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity), Bern University of Arts, Bern, Switzerland, April 17, 2008. »»
• Integrating Paper and Digital Information Spaces - The iServer / iPaper Solution, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 31, 2008. »»
• Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Publishing, Treffpunkt Publishing, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, January 29, 2008. »»
• Interactive Paper @ ETH Zurich, multi task - Crossmediales Publizieren live, multi digital, Baar, Switzerland, November 29, 2007. »»
• Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide: The iPaper Interactive Paper Framework, Research Seminar, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, May 2007. »»

Recent Presentations

• What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, ER 2010, 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Vancouver, Canada, November 2010. »»
• Interactive Paper: Past, Present and Future, PaperComp 2010, 1st International Workshop on Paper Computing, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2010. »»
• An Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation Services, WISE 2009, 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Poznan, Poland, October 2009. »»
• Active Components as a Method for Coupling Data and Services - A Database-Driven Application Development Process, ICOODB 2009, 2nd International Conference on Object Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland, July 2009. »»
• The Remediation of Paper - Creating Affinities between Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, DINF Seminar Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, April 2009. »»
• PowerPoint Multimedia Presentations in Computer Science Education: What do Users Need?, USAB 2008, 4th Symposium on Usability & HCI for Education and Work, Graz, Austria, November 2008. »»
• Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries, ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008. »»
• Google PageRank, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, August 25, 2008. »»
• PAD - Recent Developments and Future Work, GlobIS Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10, 2008. »»
• Collaborating over Paper and Digital Media - Interactive Paper Applications @ ETH Zurich, CSCW Seminar, May 2008, ETH Zurich. »»
• i3 - Recent iServer, iPaper and iGesture Developments, OMS Seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, December 5, 2007. »»
• iGesture: A General Gesture Recognition Framework, ICDAR 2007, 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007. »»
• iPaper@GlobIS - Interactive Paper Research, CSCW Seminar, ETH Zurich, June 2007. »»
• Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide, CSCW Seminar, ETH Zurich, March 2007. »»
• PaperPoint: A Paper-Based Presentation and Interactive Paper Prototyping Tool, TEI 2007, 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Baton Rouge, USA, February 2007. »»
• General Framework for the Rapid Development of Interactive Paper Applications, CoPADD 2006, 1st International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, Banff, Canada, November 2006. »»
• Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web, DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, October 2006. »»
• Bridging the Divide Between Paper and Digital: Some Investigations, Stanford HCI Group, Stanford, May 2006.
• Bridging the Divide Between Paper and Digital: Some Investigations, Ricoh Innovations, Menlo Park, May 2006.
• Linking Paper and Digital Media, DELOS Demo Day, February 2006. »»

Press Articles

• Papier als digitale Schnittstelle, viscom print & communication Nr. 10, May 23 2006.
• Monte Generoso meets Platzspitz, ETH Life international, December 2004.

Other Activities

• Partner and Member of the Managing Board of Tenera AG.
• Participant of the Inter-Disciplinary Summer School Information Environments: Analysis and Design, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2002.

Teaching

Courses Lectures

• Introduction to Databases (WE-DINF-9552), Spring Term 2011. (Introduction, Extended ER Model and other Modelling Languages, Relational Model and Relational Algebra, Relational Database Design, Structured Query Language (SQL), Advanced SQL, DBMS Architectures and Features, Storage Management, Access Methods, Query Processing and Optimisation, Transaction Management, Object and Object-Relational Databases, Current Trends and Review)
• Databases (WE-DINF-14124), Spring Term 2011.
• Advanced Topics in Information Systems (WE-DINF-15240), Spring Term 2011.
• Web Information Systems (WE-DINF-11912), Winter Term 2010. (Introduction, Web Architectures, Markup Languages, Universal Client Access, Web 2.0 Basics, Web 2.0 Patterns and Technologies, Web Application Frameworks, Semantic Web, Mobile Information Systems, Web Search, Security, Privacy and Trust, Future Trends, Summary)
• Introduction to Databases (WE-DINF-9552), Spring Term 2010. (Structured Query Language (SQL), Advanced SQL, DBMS Architectures and Features, Storage Management, Access Methods, Query Processing and Optimisation, Transaction Management, Object Object-Relational Databases, Future Trends and Review)
• Databases (WE-DINF-14124), Spring Term 2010.
• Seminar Web Information Systems Technology (WE-DINF-12688), Spring Term 2010.
• Web Information Systems (WE-DINF-11912), Winter Term 2009.
• Seminar Web Information Systems Technology (SWIST), Spring Tem 2009.
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2008 (led by Prof. Moira C. Norrie).
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2007 (led by Prof. Moira C. Norrie).
• Object-Oriented Technologies for Data Management, Winter Term 2001/2002 (led by Prof. Moira C. Norrie).
• Object-Oriented Technologies for Data Management, Winter Term 2000/2001 (led by Prof. Moira C. Norrie).

Seminar Organisation and Supervision

• Advanced Topics in Information Systems - The Semantic Web, Winter Term 2008.
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Advanced Human-Computer Interfaces, Spring Term 2008.
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Bridging the Paper-Digital Divide, Summer Term 2007.
• Advanced Topics in Information Systems, Winter Term 2006/2007.
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Summer Term 2006.
• Advanced Topics in Information Systems, Winter Term 2005/2006.

Industry Courses

• XML Solutions, 24/25.3. 2003.
• Datenmodelierung, -austausch und universeller Zugriff, 8/9.7. 2002.
• XML Solutions, 25/26.3. 2002.
• XML Solutions, 26/27.3. 2001.
• Web Information Systems, 9/10.10. 2000.

Course Tutor

• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2004/2005.
• Information Systems (Basic Course), Summer Term 2004.
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2003/2004.
• Information Systems (Basic Course), Summer Term 2003.
• Information Systems (Basic Course), Summer Term 2002.
• Object-Oriented Technologies for Data Management, Winter Term 2001/2002.
• Informatics III, Winter Term 2001/2002.
• Information Systems (Basic Course), Summer Term 2001.
• Object-Oriented Technologies for Data Management, Winter Term 2000/2001.
• Informatics III, Winter Term 2000/2001.
• Information Systems (Basic Course), Summer Term 2000.
• Object-Oriented Technologies for Data Management, Winter Term 1999/2000.

Supervised Student Projects

Term Projects

• iGesture: Implementation and Evaluation of Advanced Gesture Detection Algorithms, Rik Vanmechelen, 2011.
• Paper-Digital Maps, Brecht Van Laethem, 2011.
• Pen and Paper-based Object Database Interface, Jeroen Heymans, 2011.
• iGesture Extension for 3D Input Devices, Arthur Vogels, November 2008.
• Remote Sketching on Paper, Hermann Hofstetter, August 2007.
• iFlash - A Flash Plug-in for iServer, Gianni Frey, April 2006.
• Active Component Authoring Tool, Samuel Willimann, October 2005.
• Interactive Paper Laboratory Notebooks, Ueli Kurmann, April 2005.
• Eclipse Plug-in for Jawin, Stefan Naegeli, April 2005.
• Paper-Based Cross-Media Authoring, Thomas Bruderer, April 2005.
• Advanced XHTML Plug-in for iServer, Stefan Malär, April 2005.
• Navigation Facilities for Paper-Based Tourist Information System for the Edinburgh Festivals, Sandra Brockmann, April 2005.
• Link Browser for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), David Mysicka, October 2004.
• Cross-Media Authoring Tool, Nina Laschet, October 2004.
• Bayesian Network for Prefetching Caches, Alexandre de Spindler, August 2004.
• Active Components for iServer - In Consideration of Paper-Based Authoring, Philipp Bolliger, April 2004.
• QuickTime Movie Plug-in for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), Fabio Lanfranchi, August 2003.
• Authoring Tool for Digitally Augmented Paper, Andreas Diener, October 2002.
• Java HID-USB API for Windows, Michael Stahl, October 2002.
• Voice-Based User Interface for the eXtensible Information Management Architecture (XIMA), Daniel Heiniger and Peter Geissbuehler, April 2001
• E-Mail Application based on OMS Java, Claudia Saupper, April 2001.
• XML Export for OMS, Markus Haller, April 2001.
• JGraph - A Swing Component for Visualizing Graphs, Gaudenz Alder, December 2000.
• A Slim and Open Data Model for Public Transport Network using OMS, Raphael Huber, November 2000.

Diploma/Master Theses

• SpeeG: A Speech- and Gesture-based Text Input Device, Jorn De Baerdemaeker, 2011.
• Innovative Interactions for Computer-Supported Presentation Tools, Tom Antjon, 2011.
• 3-Dimensional Gesture Recognition: Algorithms and Applications, Johan Bas, 2011.
• An RSL-based Associative Filesystem, Gregory Cardone, November 2009.
• Extending the iGesture Framework with Multimodal Gesture Interaction Functionality (Baudouin Elleboudt Award 2011), Björn Puype, October 2009.
• Conference Information System - Analysis, Design and Implementation, Katinka Kromwijk, September 2008.
• Distributed Lookup Service for Interactive Paper Applications, Monica Frisoni, August 2007.
• iGesture - A General Gesture Recognition Framework, Ueli Kurmann, September 2006.
• Distributed Collaborative Information Environment based on iServer, Alexandre de Spindler, January 2005.
• Study into Potential Use of Digital Pen and Paper Technology at the SNF, Carlo Quirici, October 2004.
• Distributed iServer Architecture Based on Peer-to-Peer Concepts, Christian Heinzer, October 2003.
• jUSB - Java USB API for Windows, Michael Stahl, May 2003.
• XHTML Plug-in for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer), Simon Schulé, October 2003.
• Visualisation of Tours and Trails, Corsin Decurtins, November 2001.
• Providing a Telephone Avalanche Warning Service using XIMA and VoiceXML, Peter Geissbuehler, October 2001.
• Providing a Telephone Avalanche Warning Service using XIMA and WML, Daniel Heiniger, October 2001.
• GOMS - A Geographical Object Management System, Raphael Huber, April 2001.
• CMServer - An Object-Oriented Framework for Website Development and Content Management, Michael Grossniklaus, November 2000.
• WAP Interface for OMS Java based on an XML Server Component, Matthias Kistler, April 2000.
• Framework for Web Information Systems based on OMS and Java Servlets, Michael Gut, November 1999.

PhD Theses

• Software Engineering Technologies for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces, Lode Hoste, 2011-now.
• Investigations on the Benefits of Using Digital Pen and Paper Technologies in Meetings, Adriana Ispas, 2006-now (co-supervision with Prof. Moira C. Norrie).
• A Publishing Infrastructure for Interactive Paper Documents: Supporting Interactions across the Paper-Digital Divide, Nadir Weibel, Diss ETH No. 18514, 2009 (co-supervision with Prof. Moira C. Norrie). »»

Student Assistants

• iPaper Tools, Claudio Hatz, December 2007.
• iGesture Recognition Framework, Michele Croci, October 2007.
• Interactive Tabletop, Matthias Geel, September 2007.
• iGesture Recognition Framework, Ueli Kurmann, January 2007.
• iFlash Plug-in for iServer, Gianni Frey, November 2006.

Publications

• Elien Paret, William Van Woensel , Sven Casteleyn , Beat Signer and Olga De Troyer, Efficient Querying of Distributed RDF Sources in Mobile Settings based on a Source Index Model, In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011), Niagara Falls, Canada, September 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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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, A Model and Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation and Link Services, Information Systems 36(3), Elsevier, May 2011
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• Elien Paret, William Van Woensel , Sven Casteleyn , Beat Signer and Olga De Troyer, Efficient Mobile Querying of Distributed RDF Sources, In Proceedings of ESWC 2011 (Poster), 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion Greece, May 2011
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• Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie, Herman Hofstetter, Hans-Christian Jetter and Harald Reiterer, PaperSketch: A Paper-Digital Collaborative Remote Sketching Tool, In Proceedings of IUI 2011, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, USA, February 2011
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• Christophe Scholiers, Lode Hoste, Beat Signer and Wolfgang De Meuter, Midas: A Declarative Multi-Touch Interaction Framework, In Proceedings of TEI 2011, 5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Funchal, Portugal, January 2011
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• Beat Signer, What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, In Proceedings of ER 2010, 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Vancouver, Canada, November 2010
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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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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Interactive Paper: Past, Present and Future, In Proceedings of PaperComp 2010, 1st International Workshop on Paper Computing, Copenhagen Denmark, September 2010
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• Stefania Leone, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Alexandre de Spindler, From Static Methods to Role-Driven Service Invocation - A Metamodel for Active Content in Object Databases, In Proceedings of ER 2009, 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Gramado, Brazil, November 2009
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• Beat Signer, Alexandre de Spindler and Moira C. Norrie, Collaborative Ad-hoc Information Sharing in Cross-Media Information Environments, CoopIS 2009, 17th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 2009
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, An Architecture for Open Cross-Media Annotation Services, In Proceedings of WISE 2009, 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Poznan, Poland, October 2009
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• Beat Signer, Alexandre de Spindler and Moira C. Norrie, A Framework for Link Sharing in Cooperative Cross-Media Information Spaces, In Proceedings of CDVE 2009, 6th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 2009
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• Beat Signer, Alexandre de Spindler and Moira C. Norrie, A Peer-to-Peer-based Distributed Link Service Architecture, Technical Report ETH Zurich, TR636, August 2009
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Active Components as a Method for Coupling Data and Services - A Database-Driven Application Development Process, In Proceedings of ICOODB 2009, 2nd International Conference on Object Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2009
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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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• Elke Reuss, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, PowerPoint Multimedia Presentations in Computer Science Education: What do Users Need?, In Proceedings of USAB 2008, 4th Symposium on Usability & HCI for Education and Work, Graz, Austria, November 2008 (best paper award)
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, A Framework for Developing Pervasive Cross-Media Applications based on Physical Hypermedia and Active Components, In Proceedings of ICPCA 2008, 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2008
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• Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries, Proceedings of ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008
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• Marcus Liwicki, Kinga Schumacher, Andreas Dengel, Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Pen and Paper-based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop, Extended Abstracts of DAS 2008, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Nara, Japan, September 2008
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• Marcus Liwicki, Kinga Schumacher, Andreas Dengel, Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Semantic eInk - Pen and Paper-based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop, Demo Proceedings of DAS 2008, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Nara, Japan, September 2008
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• Beat Signer, Papier als interaktives mobiles Medium, E-Learning Dossier 2008/03, June 2008
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• Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, Hardcover, 276 Pages, May 2008 (first published 2006 as Diss ETH No. 16218)
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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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• Paul Luff, Guy Adams, Wolfgang Bock, Adam Drazin, David M. Frohlich, Christian Heath, Peter Herdman, Heather King, Nadja Linketscher, Rachel Murphy, Moira C. Norrie, Abigail Sellen, Beat Signer, Ella Tallyn and Emil Zeller, Augmented Paper: Developing Relationships between Digital Content and Paper, The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4500
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• Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus, Rudi Belotti, Corsin Decurtins and Nadir Weibel, Context-Aware Platform for Mobile Data Management, Wireless Networks (WINET), Vol. 13, No. 6, Springer, December 2007
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• Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus and Moira C. Norrie, Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-Channel Web Information System, World Wide Web (WWW), Vol. 10, No. 4, Springer, December 2007
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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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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems, In Proceedings of ER 2007, 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2007
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• Michael Grossniklaus, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Producing Interactive Paper Documents based on Multi-Channel Content Publishing, In Proceedings of AXMEDIS 2007, 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, Barcelona, Spain, November 2007
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• Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer, Patrick Ponti and Moira C. Norrie, PaperProof: A Paper-Digital Proof-Editing System, In Proceedings of CoPADD 2007, 2nd Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, London, UK, November 2007
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• Beat Signer, Ueli Kurmann and Moira C. Norrie, iGesture: A General Gesture Recognition Framework, In Proceedings of ICDAR 2007, 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007
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• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie and Ueli Kurmann, iGesture: A Java Framework for the Development and Deployment of Stroke-Based Online Gesture Recognition Algorithms, Technical Report ETH Zurich, TR561, September 2007
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• Nadir Weibel, Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, A Model for Mapping between Printed and Digital Document Instances, In Proceedings of DocEng 2007, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, PaperPoint: A Paper-Based Presentation and Interactive Paper Prototyping Tool, In Proceedings of TEI 2007, First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Baton Rouge, USA, February 2007
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• Maristella Agosti, Stefano Beretti, Gert Brettlecker, Alberto del Bimbo, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Daniel Keim, Claus-Peter Klas, Thomas Lidy, Moira C. Norrie, Paola Ranaldi, Andreas Rauber, Hans-Jörg Schek, Tobias Schreck, Heiko Schuldt, Beat Signer and Michael Springmann, DelosDLMS - the Integrated DELOS Digital Library Management System, DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, Pisa, Italy, February 2007
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• Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, Dissertation, ETH No. 16218, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006
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• Michael Grossniklaus, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Putting Location-Based Services on the Map, In Proceedings of W2GIS 2006, 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Hong Kong, China, December 2006
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• Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, General Framework for the Rapid Development of Interactive Paper Applications, CoPADD 2006, 1st Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, Banff, Canada, November 2006
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• Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web, In Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006
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• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie, Michael Grossniklaus, Rudi Belotti, Corsin Decurtins and Nadir Weibel, Paper-Based Mobile Access to Databases, In Demo Proceedings of SIGMOD 2006, ACM International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, USA, June 2006
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• Alexandre de Spindler, Moira C. Norrie, Michael Grossniklaus and Beat Signer, Spatio-Temporal Proximity as a Basis for Collaborative Filtering in Mobile Environments, UMICS 2006, Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, June 2006
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• Axel Vogelsang and Beat Signer, The Lost Cosmonaut: An Interactive Narrative Environment on Basis of Digitally Enhanced Paper, In Proceedings of International Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2005, Strasbourg, France, December 2005
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Information Server for Highly-Connected Cross-Media Publishing, Information Systems 30(7), November 2005
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• Moira C. Norrie, Alexios Palinginis and Beat Signer, Content Publishing Framework for Interactive Paper Documents, In Proceedings of DocEng 2005, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom, November 2005
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• Rudi Belotti, Corsin Decurtins, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Ljiljana Vukelja, Experimental Platform for Mobile Information Systems, In Proceedings of MobiCom 2005, 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Cologne, Germany, August 2005
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• Ella Tallyn, David M. Frohlich, Nadja Linketscher, Beat Signer and Guy Adams, Using Paper to Support Collaboration in Educational Activities, In Proceedings of CSCL 2005, Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2005
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, A Framework for Cross-media Information Management, In Proceedings of EuroIMSA 2005, International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 2005
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Overlaying Paper Maps with Digital Information Services for Tourists, In Proceedings of ENTER 2005, 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel and Tourism, Innsbruck, Austria, January 2005
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• Paul Luff, Christian Heath, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Peter Herdman, Only Touching the Surface: Creating Affinities Between Digital Content and Paper, In Proceedings of CSCW 2004, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, USA, November 2004
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• Corsin Decurtins, Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Putting the Gloss on Paper: A Framework for Cross-Media Annotation, NRHM 2003, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 9, 2003
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Switching over to Paper: A New Web Channel, In Proceedings of WISE 2003, 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, December 2003
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• Corsin Decurtins, Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Digital Annotation of Printed Documents, In Proceedings of CIKM 2003, 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, USA, November 2003
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• Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Multi-Layered Cross-Media Linking, In Proceedings of Hypertext'03, 14th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Nottingham, United Kingdom, August 2003
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Issues of Information Semantics and Granularity in Cross-Media Publishing, In Proceedings of CAiSE'2003, 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 2003
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Web-Based Integration of Printed and Digital Information, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2590, February 2003.
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• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie, Peter Geissbuehler and Daniel Heiniger, Telephone Interface for Avalanche Warnings based on Information Server for Adaptable Content Delivery, Short Paper presented at Pervasive 2002, International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2002.
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• Moira C. Norrie and Beat Signer, Web-Based Integration of Printed and Digital Information, In Proceedings of DiWeb'02, 2nd Workshop on Data Integration over the Web, Toronto, Canada, May 2002.
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• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie, Peter Geissbuehler and Daniel Heiniger, Aural Interfaces to Databases based on VoiceXML, In Proceedings of VDB6, 6th IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems, Brisbane, Australia, May 2002.
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• David M. Frohlich, Ella Tallyn, Nadja Linketscher, Beat Signer and Guy Adams, Reading Augmented Paper: Children's Experiences from a Simulation Study, Technical Report HP Labs, HPL-2001-308, November 2001.
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• Adrian Kobler, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Michael Grossniklaus, OMS Java: Providing Information, Storage and Access Abstractions in an Object-Oriented Framework, In Proceedings of OOIS'2002, 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, Calgary, Canada, August 2001.
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• Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus and Moira C. Norrie, Java Framework for Database-Centric Web Engineering, In Proceedings of WebE'2001, 4th Workshop on Web Engineering, (In conjunction with 10th World Wide Web Conference), Hong Kong, May 2001.
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• Beat Signer, Antonia Erni and Moira C. Norrie, A Personal Assistant for Web Database Caching, In Proceedings of CAiSE'00, 12th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000
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