DigiClip: Activating Physical Documents

  • Authors:
  • Christian Decker;Michael Beigl;Adam Eames;Uwe Kubach

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Today many documents are held in parallel as electronicfiles and as paper based documents. Keeping theproperties of both versions in sync is important to assureconsistency between the physical and virtual instances ofone document. This paper introduces the DigiClip systemthat provides a solution to automatically enforce suchconsistency by converting passive paper documents to activephysical documents. The main component of the systemis the DigiClip device, a clip with embedded computing,sensing and communication technology that is attachedto a paper document. The device is able to supervisethe status of the document and to communicate to asoftware component that supervises the electronic instanceof the same document. In this way the DigiClip system enablesapplications to automatically coordinate propertieslike integrity and access restrictions and to keep track ofchanges both of the physical and the virtual document.