The Myth of the Paperless Office
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Accommodating paper in document databases
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Document engineering
Photosensing wireless tags for geometric procedures
Communications of the ACM - Special issue: RFID
Integration of virtual and real document organization
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
Digital management and retrieval of physical documents
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
SOPHYA: a system for digital management of ordered physical document collections
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Document management and information organizing method using RFID tags
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Where the streets have no name: how library users get lost in the stacks
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
Visualization of physical library shelves to facilitate collection management and retrieval
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
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Paper documents are still an integral component of our everyday working lives, and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, advances in electronic technology in recent years have made it possible to develop digital systems that better integrate paper and digital document management. However, as far as we are aware, none of these integrated document management systems have been evaluated to demonstrate whether the users would indeed find them valuable for managing paper documents. In this paper we present a user study of one such system, called SOPHYA, that provides a means of linking the management of real world document artefacts (e.g., folders) with their electronic counterparts, so that document management activities such as locating, retrieving, and filing documents can be better supported, especially for large collections. The study is in the form of a laboratory-based evaluation, in which participants with experience in document management used the system to perform several tasks, such as locating and retrieving folders, and provided feedback based on their own experience. The results of this study show that users are able to apply software functionality they use for storage and retrieval of electronic documents to effectively manage paper documents as well. Our study has also identified a range of other potential benefits that the users envisage for such a technology in their diverse work environments.