The missing link: integrating paper and electronic documents

  • Authors:

  • Wendy E. Mackay

  • Affiliations:

  • In Situ, INRIA Futurs, LRI

  • Venue:
  • IHM 2003 Proceedings of the 15th French-speaking conference on human-computer interaction on 15eme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Despite the prevalence of computers and on-line documents, paper persists. As physical objects, paper documents are easy to use, flexible, portable and have proven extremely difficult to replace. Even though they all use computers, engineers still annotate large paper engineering drawings, video producers still sketch and rearrange paper storyboards, air traffic controllers still plan traffic flows with paper flight strips, and biologists still record experiments and organise multimedia data in paper notebooks.In this article, I argue that we should seriously reconsider the urge to replace all paper documents with on-line ones, accessible only with a mouse and keyboard and viewable only a screen. Instead, we should begin to think about "interactive paper": which maintains the ease-of-use of physical paper, while enabling us to benefit from the full spectrum of interactive computing.