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Printertainment: Printing with Interactive Cover Sheets

Printertainment: Printing with Interactive Cover Sheets. UC Berkeley Jason Hong FXPAL Bill Schilit Morgan Price Gene Golovchinsky. Coversheets. Printertainment Motivation. Do something useful with cover sheets Usually just thrown away Can we use other people’s coversheets?

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Printertainment: Printing with Interactive Cover Sheets

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  1. Printertainment: Printing with Interactive Cover Sheets UC Berkeley Jason Hong FXPAL Bill Schilit Morgan Price Gene Golovchinsky

  2. Coversheets

  3. Printertainment Motivation • Do something useful with cover sheets • Usually just thrown away • Can we use other people’s coversheets? • Improve user experience when printing • Can we do something useful or fun instead of just waiting for printouts?

  4. Interaction • Reading • Discussing • Marking -> Computer input • Paper Applications are a step towards bridging digital and paper media • Users read and mark up the Paper User Interface of a paper application • Annotations are scanned in and processed by computer at a later time

  5. Design Process • Tried out Three Prototypes • Xamagotchi • MadLibs • CoverNotes • Developed on Xerox Paperware Toolkit • Checkboxes • Freeform ink • Used our workgroup Printer / Scanner

  6. Fun!

  7. Xamagotchi • Virtual Printer Pet overlaid on coversheet • Check off action and then scan in • Amusing • Hung up on walls • Take care of it?

  8. MadLibs Input

  9. MadLibs Output

  10. MadLibs Feedback • It’s fun • Used by and talked about by groups • MadLibs hanging outside offices • Problems • Is it a coversheet? • Synchronous • Can scan app in, but need to wait for output! • Not useful

  11. CoverNotes • Print jobs get CoverNotes coversheet • Group communication • like a bulletin board • Coversheets publicize information • freeform ink input

  12. Message CoverNotes Every CoverNotes coversheet contains three messages from a pool of messages

  13. Empty Box Duration CoverNotes Fill in the empty box and check off the duration

  14. CoverNotes Fill in the empty box and check off the duration

  15. CoverNotes Scan in the form. No waiting for scan to start or for output!

  16. CoverNotes Feedback • One week usage • CoverNotes publicized info • People left them by the printer • Asynchronous interaction worked • But is it a coversheet? • Not as faithful as the Xamagotchi prototype • Not enough content

  17. Future Work • Add outside content to make an “Office newspaper” • Handwritten notes • Email Announcements • News stories from the Web

  18. Conclusions • Interactive coversheets have affordances of paper • Hand around and discuss • Hang on walls • Markup • Lessons • Asynchronous interaction is key • Needs to look like a coversheet • Three prototypes show that Interactive Coversheets can be fun!

  19. Questions?

  20. Spare Slides

  21. Sample Apps - MadLibs

  22. Strengths and Weaknesses • No feedback • when scanning • when using widgets • Undo • No history of actions • Static content and form • Cannot do weather and stocks very well

  23. Designing Paper Apps (cont.) • Not well suited for synchronous apps • Slow update and turnaround time • Easy to lose state • Throw it in the trash • Debugging is difficult! • Generates lots of paper

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