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Digital management and retrieval of physical documents

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Matthew Jervis,

Masood MasoodianAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction

Pages 47 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/1517664.1517682

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Although in today's everyday work environments digital and paper documents co-exist, the systems used to manage them are often completely separate; digital documents are managed using computer systems, while paper documents are organised and managed using manual systems. Since it is unlikely that the widespread use of paper documents will cease to exist in the foreseeable future, digital systems are needed for managing the storage and retrieval of paper documents which better integrate with existing systems for management of digital documents. This paper presents an architecture for a system to digitally manage paper document containers, such as folders, which has been used as the design basis for a prototype system we have developed. This prototype system aims to resolve some of the problems associated with an earlier prototype we have developed to integrate filing of physical folders with digital document management systems.

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TEI '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction

February 2009

407 pages

ISBN:9781605584935

DOI:10.1145/1517664

Conference Chairs:
Nicolas Villar
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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Shahram Izadi
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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University of Bristol, UK
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Steve Benford
University of Nottingham, UK

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Jervis MMasoodian M(2011)Evaluation of an Integrated Paper and Digital Document Management SystemHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 201110.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_8(100-116)Online publication date: 2011
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