From Audio Paper to Next Generation Paper

摘要

It has been 24 years since the publication of Wellner’s (1993)uddigital desk, demonstrating the augmentation of paperuddocuments with projected information. Since then there haveudbeen many related developments in computing; including theudworld wide web, e-book readers, maturation of the augmentedudreality paradigm, embedded and printed electronics, and theudinternet of things. In this talk I draw on some of my own designudexplorations of augmenting paper with sound over the years, toudillustrate the value of ‘audiopaper’ but also the way theseudexplorations were rooted in the applications and technology ofudthe day. I show that two key technologies have been importantudto the implementation of audiopaper over the years, and that theudbigger opportunity is in connecting paper to the web. Thisudculminates in a vision for two future generations of paper whichudcommunicate and interact with the digital devices around them