ambientROOM: integrating ambient media with architectural space
CHI 98 Cconference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Navigational blocks: navigating information space with tangible media
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Tangible bits: designing the seamless interface between people, bits, and atoms
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
The Myth of the Paperless Office
The Myth of the Paperless Office
SOPHYA: a system for digital management of ordered physical document collections
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Large scale query log analysis of re-finding
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
The fused library: integrating digital and physical libraries with location-aware sensors
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
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It is often difficult for bus y people to keep track of or re-find documents in their own workplace. They may try to remember the location of documents by context (that is by information associated with the object) or they may try to improve the chance of finding documents by placing them in a highly visible area. However, very few methods have been developed for finding a physical object's location in an office. Most of the existing methods require some kind of structured approach to be followed by the user. We created a "Human-Centred Workplace" system that does not require orderly users. The system generates and prints passive tags on documents and uses (web)cameras in the office to capture images and track changes in the documents' locations. This paper introduces the design and implementation of the system, explores its use in an office environment and gives a first-cut evaluation of our prototypical implementation.