Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents

Rationale and Aims

When observing everyday settings it is amazing how the use of the paper persists even when technologies are introduced to replace it. Paper seems to support collaboration in ways that sophisticated technologies cannot. Recently a number of technologies have been developed that seek to exploit the 'affordances of paper'. These include displays with many of the visible and material qualities of paper, digital pens for capturing writing and drawing and other techniques that seek to take advantage of innovations in paper, ink, electronic imaging and detection devices. Although these technologies have not been developed with the specific aim of supporting collaboration, they seem to offer unique capabilities for supporting everyday work activities and interaction. We believe it is timely to hold a first international workshop to discuss the implications of such technologies for supporting collaborative work This will be of interest not only to those within CSCW, but also those with an interest in ubiquitous technologies, innovative support for new media, multi-modal interaction and particular domains such as publishing, education and healthcare.

Workshop Format

We invite researchers to this workshop from a wide range of disciplines including the social sciences, human-computer interaction, information sciences, ubiquitous computing and collaborative systems, as well as experts in paper, printing, digital pen and screen technologies. The workshop will consist of short presentations and demonstrations intended to inform participants of on-going projects and stimulate open discussion. One session will be devoted to technological innovations, one to studies and experience and one to future developments. Presentations will be selected based on reviews of submitted abstracts and all accepted abstracts will be published on a workshop web site before the workshop. This web site will also support on-line discussions and exchanges of information before and after the workshop.

Contact

copadd@inf.ethz.ch

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