Controlling Parameters of Carbonate platform Environment
iPaper@GlobIS - Interactive Paper Research
1. iPaper@GlobIS – Interactive Paper Research
CSCW Seminar
Beat Signer, Nadir Weibel, Adriana Ispas and Moira C. Norrie
Global Information Systems Research Group
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner
CSCW Seminar 2007, June 12, 2007
2. Problems of Existing Applications
Many projects focus on the input device, paper,
printing and other hardware technologies rather
than on the data integration and information
management aspects isolated solutions
The linking of paper tends to be based on
physical rather than information-centric concepts
difficult to integrate new input / output devices
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3. Our Approach
General interactive framework
different forms of paper-based interactions (enhanced
reading, enhanced writing, …)
rapid prototyping as well as large scale publishing
integration of new types of resources and services
integration of new input devices
The key to a highly integrated interactive paper
solution lies in the introduction of a platform for
general cross-media information management
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4. Active Areas and Virtual Page Layers
image
video clip
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6. iServer Metamodel and Resource Plug-ins
link
Entities
Selectors Resources
Shape Page Query DB Object
Time Span / Movie Clip XPointer XHTML
Data/Metadata
Spatial Info Document
iPaper Application Database
Movie Clips HTML Documents
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7. iSERVER
iServer
Links link parameter
(1,*) (1,*) Has (0,*)
HasSource Links HasTarget Preferences
Preferences
(0,*) (0,*)
(0,*)
parameter entity (0,*) AccessibleTo (0,*) user
(0,*) (0,*) (0,*)
Properties HasProperties Entities (0,*)
(0,*)
Users HasMembers
(1,1)
InaccessibleTo
Layers partition
partition
(0,*)
layer individual group
(0,*) (0,*)
|Layers| OnLayer CreatedBy Individuals Groups
Users
layer
(1,1) Plug-ins
selector resource
Active (1,1) (0,*) (0,*)
Selectors RefersTo Resources Contains
Layers
(0,*)
Resources
iPAPER page resource activeComponent medium
(0,*) Active Com-
OnPage Pages Containers Media
(1,1) ponents
shape
(0,*)
Shapes HasShapes (1,1)
medium
document
Contains (0,*) Movies
partition (2,*) Documents
Pages
rectangle polygon ellipse circle complexShape medium medium
Complex
Rectangles Polygons Ellipses Circles Images Webpages
Shapes
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8. iServer Interfaces
Java API
XML import and export
Interface based on XML and XSLT
XHTML
WAP, i-mode
VoiceXML
Web Service
Peer-to-peer (P2P)
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10. iWeb Plug-in
World Wide Web
HTTP HTTP
Request Response
SOAP Request
iServExt
SOAP Response
iWeb Plug-in
Link DB
Firefox Web Client
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11. Active Content
Execute code (services) on the client and server side
AC Manager
Active Component
ACS Manager A
Active Component Active Component
Stub B B
Request Sender
Client Device
Active Component
AC Names HTTP
C
iServer AC Names
Client Server
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12. Active Components
Button Image
Slider Sound
Slider2D Movie
DateSelector SQLClient
Browser XCMRequest
MapSelector ClientCtrlRequest
Rating PaperPointControl
Capture PaperPointAnnot
CaptureAndSpeak ...
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19. EdFest Architecture Overview
Context XCM
Engine content publishing
platform
Context DB Metadata DB Appln DB
Text-to-Speech
Engine ICR Software
Client handwriting
Controller recognition
Active
iPaper Client iServer/iPaper
cross-media
Components
link server
Link DB
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20. Content Publishing Framework
iServer
cross-media link server
XML link
XCM iPublish definition
content publishing publishing framework
data
publish • paper link data
Structure Style • active areas on paper
• layers
• digital resources
import • user model
PDF
XML data XSL CSS
of festival
venues
and events
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21. Print-n-Link
Citations build the basis
for a scientific web of
publications
Use digital services to
search / retrieve cited
publications
Automatic authoring
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22. Print-n-Link Architecture
Interactive Paper Architecture Desktop
(x,y)
Coordinates iSERVER
iPAPER Active Content Text-to-
Speech
iPaper iPaper Plug-in
Client Link DB
Publish
Positions and
Active Content
Definition
Document Retrieval
Print-n-Link Engine
Web Search
Citation Document Services
Retrieval Lookup
Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web Semantic Mapper Printing
Moira C. Norrie Beat Signer Nadir Weibel
Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science
ETH Zurich ETH Zurich ETH Zurich
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
norrie@inf.ethz.ch
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
signer@inf.ethz.ch
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
weibel@inf.ethz.ch
Publish Display
ABSTRACT Citation DB
Citations
engines and web browsers. The ease with which we can
Citations form the basis for a web of scientific publications. not only find documents on the web, but also follow links
Search engines, embedded hyperlinks and digital libraries to related documents is considered to be one of the main
all simplify the task of finding publications of interest on advantages of working with digital documents as opposed
the web and navigating to cited publications or web sites. to paper equivalents. Y many studies have shown that
et
However the actual reading of publications often takes place paper is still the preferred med ium when it comes to reading
on paper and frequently on the move. We present a system documents for reasons of comfort, mobility and also ease of
Print-n-Link that uses technologies for interactive paper to annotation.
enhance the reading process by enabling users to access dig- In this paper, we show how emerging technologies for in-
ital information and/or searches for cited documents from a teractive paper enable a bridge to be built between paper
printed version of a publication using a digital pen for inter- and digital document spaces that allows users to travel back
and forth between the two using the medium most appropri-
iDOC
action. A special virtual printer driver automatically gener-
ates links from paper to digital services during the printing ate to the current task and sit uation. Users can print doc-
process based on an analysis of PDF documents. Depend- uments for reading and, by activating hyperlinks on paper
ing on the user setting and interaction gesture, the system with a digital pen, they can not only access digital informa-
may retrieve metadata about the citation and inform the tion about related documents, but also initiate web searches
user through an audio channel or directly display the cited to retrieve copies of those documents. The retrieved docu-
document on the user’s screen. ments may in turn be printed for reading with automatically
generated embedded hyperlinks on the paper. Mobility is
supported by providing disconnected users on the move with
Categories and Subject Descriptors audio information about related documents and the option
D.2.11 [ Software Engineering ]: Software Architectures; of adding them to a request list to be processed when recon-
H.4.m [ Information Systems Applications ]: Miscella- nected.
neous; H.5.m [ Information Interfaces and Presenta- As an application, we take the everyday academic task of
tion ]: Miscellaneous reading scientific publications. Whether the reading activ-
Semantic Mapper
ity is for the purpose of knowledge discovery or reviewing,
readers regularly look up citations to other publications by
General Terms flicking to the reference list at the back of the paper. In some
Design, Algorithms, Experimentation cases, a search for the cited publication may follow and, if
found, often it is printed and added to a pile of documents to
Keywords be read. Citations are the established means of providing the
links that form the basis of the scientific web of publications
Publish
Interactive paper, document integration, digital library, ci- that spans the digital and paper worlds. Just as citations
tation management within digital documents can be used to automatically gen-
1. INTRODUCTION
erate hyperlinks to cited documents, we can automatically
generate links within paper documents through an analysis
Citation Printer
Nowadays we are all familiar with the notion of hyperlinks
as a means of creating interconnected document spaces that
of the PDF file when the document is printed.
Section 2 presents a more detailed look at the activity
of reading scientific publications and a discussion of related Document Print
Driver
can be easily searched and navigated with the help of search
work. Section 3 describes the digital pen and paper tech-
nologies and how these can be used to support interaction
Analyser
Pattern
between paper and digital services. We then present the
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for general functionality of our enhanced reading system in Sec-
personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are tion 4 and the overall architecture in Section 5. Details of
not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies the virtual printer component used to analyse PDF docu-
bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to ments for automatic link generation as well as printing are
republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific
permission and/or a fee.
given in Section 6. Concluding remarks follow in Section 7.
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Document DB
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28. 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
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29. Generosa Enterprise
Interactive drawing installation
Exhibited at the 150 Years ETH Zurich Jubilee (more
than 200'000 visitors)
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30. iGesture Framework
Common interface for
different gesture
recognition algorithms
Tools for implementing
and evaluating new
algorithms
Gesture set management
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33. Conclusions
Interactive paper framework (iPaper)
information-centric approach supports different
technologies, functionalities and applications
rapid prototyping (reusable active components)
Extensible platform for cross-media information
management (iServer)
Cross-media authoring / publishing tools
manual, content-driven and automatic link authoring
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34. Student Projects
Basic technologies and infrastructure
iServer resource plug-ins, …
Integration of new tracking technologies
Interactive paper authoring tools
iGesture recognition framework (www.igesture.org)
Paper-based applications
PaperPoint, paper-based interface to digital
agenda/todo list (e.g. Outlook), paper-digital
notebook, paper-digital photo album, …
We offer Master and Semester projects and are also looking for Hilfsassistenten
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