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Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper

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Christian Heath,

Peter HerdmanAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 523 - 532

https://doi.org/10.1145/1031607.1031695

Published: 06 November 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Despite the wide-ranging recognition that paper remains a pervasive resource for human conduct and collaboration, there has been uncertain progress in developing technologies to bridge the paper-digital divide. In this essay we discuss the design of a technology that interweaves developments in new materials, electronics and software, and seeks to provide a cheap and accessible solution to creating new affinities between digital content, in whatever form, and ordinary paper. The technology and its design draws from a broad range of field studies, including research in classrooms and museums. These delineate the requirements and considerations that inform solutions to enhancing paper whilst preserving its integrity. The paper also discusses a naturalistic experiment, an evaluation in a museum, where we assessed the technology and the solution. We also chart the progressive development of this solution and the ways in which seemingly simple actions and issues became reconstituted as highly complex technical and analytic problems.

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