Pulp Computing

The goal of our 'Pulp Computing' project (Rakhi Rajani, Mirjana Spasojevic, Ella Tallyn and myself) was to integrate paper-based resources into our personal computing environments. Paper is very compelling "UbiMedia" (ubiquitous computing + hypermedia) because we can print physical hyperlinks on it, it's portable, and it has good sharing affordances.

We experimented with barcodes and other indicia. We also experimented with the Seiko Inklink: a pen whose position on the page could be determined, enabling us to create hyperlinks associated with objects on pages and photographs.

Publications

• We gave a demo at 1AD and a demo at Ubicomp 2003.
• HP Technical Report HPL-2004-47 describes our work on active photos in a little more detail.
• There was a poster presentation at DIS2004.