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A desk supporting computer-based interaction with paper documents

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William Newman,

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CHI '92: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 587 - 592

https://doi.org/10.1145/142750.143007

Published: 01 June 1992 Publication History

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Before the advent of the personal workstation, office work practice revolved around the paper document. Today the electronic medium offers a number of advantages over paper, but it has not eradicated paper from the office. A growing problem for those who work primarily with paper is lack of direct access to the wide variety of interactive functions available on personal workstations. This paper describes a desk with a computer-controlled projector and camera above it. The result is a system that enables people to interact with ordinary paper documents in ways normally possible only with electronic documents on workstation screens. After discussing the motivation for this work, this paper describes the system and two sample applications that can benefit from this style of interaction: a desk calculator and a French to English translation system. We describe the design and implementation of the system, report on some user tests, and conclude with some general reflections on interacting with computers in this way.

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CHI '92: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

June 1992

713 pages

ISBN:0897915135

DOI:10.1145/142750

Editors:
Penny Bauersfeld
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
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John Bennett
Tektronix, Inc. Beverton, OR
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Gene Lynch

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