towardsthepaperlessoffice

7 Innovations Towards the Paperless Office

Kate HoSocial Informatics Cluster

Contents

BackgroundWhat do digital technologies need to compete

with paper

Demos7 innovations which will be significant3 innovations which might be significant

Sellen and Harper (2002) suggests that the increased amount of information we have access to increases our need to print more

Printers have gotten cheaper, faster, and better quality than before.

Print on demand, and people tend to print rather than photocopy

Instead of decreasing our paper consumption, we have significantly increased it despite widespread adoption of Digital Technologies

Why?

Digital technologies (e.g. PCs) don’t have the same attributes (or affordances) that paper has

What does digital technologies need to compete with paper?

Quick, flexible navigation through documentsReading across more than one document at onceMarking up a document while readingInterweaving reading and writing[Portability and Accessibility]

7 innovations which will make a difference

Bumptop (http://bumptop.com/)

Multi-touch screens

Perceptive Pixel (Jeff Han)

Multi-screens

Online annotations – Diigo/Fleck

Ultramobile(Asus EEE PC)

P2P Backups - Foldershare

Better interfaces for information sharing - tagging

3 innovations that “might” make a difference

Virtual Desktops - G.ho.st

Tablet PC

Google docs Zoho office suite

Microsoft Office Live

What won’t make a difference? E-paper