Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer augmented environments: back to the real world
Bridging the paper and electronic worlds: the paper user interface
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Ariel: augmenting paper engineering drawings
CHI '95 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PaperLink: a technique for hyperlinking from real paper to electronic content
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The missing link: augmenting biology laboratory notebooks
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The Myth of the Paperless Office
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Paper augmented digital documents
Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Jadoo: a paper user interface for users unfamiliar with computers
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Papiercraft: A gesture-based command system for interactive paper
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
ICCIMA '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA 2007) - Volume 02
E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
COCO: a web-based data tracking architecture for challenged network environments
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Digitizing paper forms with mobile imaging technologies
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Shreddr: pipelined paper digitization for low-resource organizations
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Managing microfinance with paper, pen and digital slate
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Improving form-based data entry with image snippets
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in disadvantaged communities have a variety of data-collection and analysis needs, for example, for performing surveys or monitoring programs. Because much of this data collection occurs in environments with insufficient IT support and infrastructure, and among populations not always comfortable with technology, paper forms rather than electronic methods remain the predominant means for data collection. We consider the design of machine-readable paper forms for NGOs. We first examine the unique needs of NGOs that interact with underprivileged populations through interviews with eleven organizations and an in-depth investigation of one NGO's specific form-filling requirements. These explorations led to a focus on numeric forms - forms with questions requiring responses largely constrained to numbers. We then present an experiment which evaluates how a variety of formats for numeric data would fare with users from backgrounds similar to those who might fill out such forms. Our goal was to balance the tradeoff between ease-of-use among our intended population and machine readability. Combining the results of the experiment with an analysis of machine-readability from a technical perspective, we propose the best numeric input methods for different NGO form filling requirements.