Designing pen-and-paper user interfaces for interaction with documents

  • Authors:
  • Jürgen Steimle

  • Affiliations:
  • Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Despite numerous predictions of the paperless office, knowledge work is still characterized by the combined use of paper and digital documents. Digital pen-and-paper user interfaces bridge the gap between both worlds by electronically capturing the interactions of a user with a pen on real paper. The contribution of this paper is two-fold: First, we introduce an interaction framework for pen-and-paper user interfaces consisting of six core interactions. This helps both in analyzing existing work practices and interfaces and in guiding the design of interfaces which offer complex functionality and nevertheless remain simple to use. Second, we apply this framework and contribute three novel pen-and-paper interaction strategies for creating hyperlinks between printed and digital documents and for tagging both types of documents.