The Link between Paper and Information Systems

Emerging technologies for interactive paper make it possible to capture and access information from paper in a variety of interesting ways. Over the past seven years, we have developed a rich infrastructure for the prototyping and production of interactive paper documents and paper-based interfaces to applications. We will provide a review of this work, starting with a motivation for reforming rather than replacing paper and then going on to describe various ways in which paper can be linked to information systems to support both the capture of and access to information. This will include an introduction to commercial digital pen and paper technologies that can be used to capture user actions on paper as well as our own iPaper framework.