Interactive Paper

 

Digital pen technologies bridge the paper-digital divide by enabling user actions on paper to be tracked. Handwritten notes and sketches can be digitally captured. Active areas on paper can be defined that link to digital content and services and users activate them by simply touching them with the pen. Possibilities abound for publishing new forms of interactive documents and providing paper-based interfaces to applications.

We have developed a platform and range of tools to support the rapid prototyping and production of all kinds of interactive paper applications.

iPaper

iPaper is a framework that supports the rapid development and deployment of interactive paper applications. Active areas can be defined on paper and linked to various forms of digital media and services. By providing an extensive library of active components, users can rapidly develop a wide range of applications without having to do any programming. iPaper was developed as a component of iServer, a general cross-media server, which means that active areas can be linked to and from a wide range of physical and digital media including web pages, images, video, flash animations, databases and RFID tags as well as application programs. »»

iGesture

iGesture is a general and extensible framework to support the development and deployment of gesture recognition algorithms. The API makes it simple for application developers to define their own gesture-based interfaces. It is device independent and can be used with a mouse, tablet or digital pen as input. »»

Authoring and Publishing Tools

Interactive applications are developed by authoring active areas within pages and defining links to digital content and services. Depending on whether the application is a simple paper-based form interface to an existing application or a large-scale cross-media publication, different styles of authoring and publishing are appropriate. We therefore have developed a suite of tools that include support for everything from the manual authoring of active areas and links to full-scale publishing tools that automatically generate printable versions of documents and link definitions based either on a semantic analysis of existing PDF documents or a content publishing approach.

Further Information

• iPaper
• iServer
• iGesture
• Technologies
• Applications

Contact Persons

Moira C. Norrie, norrie@inf.ethz.ch
Beat Signer, signer@inf.ethz.ch
Nadir Weibel, weibel@inf.ethz.ch

 

Related Publications

2009

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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2008

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, 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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2007

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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2006

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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2005

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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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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2004

Moira C. Norrie, Paper on the Move, Keynote, Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS), CAiSE 2004, 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Riga, Latvia, June 2004
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2003

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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2002

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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2001

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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