ProjectProposal-PatrickRodriguez
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Paper Wiki
Digital pen and paper enhanced wikis
Background
What is a wiki? Wikipedia has an answer:
A wiki is a type of website that allows visitors to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content... This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.
Wikis can facilitate collaboration in many different contexts. For example, many classes, such as this one, use wikis as a more dynamic and interactive alternative to plain old static sites. Businesses and other organizations can also benefit from the use of wikis.
Problem description
How can organizations where pen and paper usage is still widespread take advantage of wikis? Many organizations still use non-digital data because of custom or necessity. In many cases, this data would be of use to others within the organization. We need a way to easily incorporate hand-written text and imagery into wikis.
Target user group
Any organization where hand-written data must be shared. Users must be sufficiently tech-savvy to be able to incorporate writing with wikis. They should be capable of learning a small set of commands (both hand-written and online) in order to use the system.
Problem Context
Rather than being a custom solution, such as one for doctors, teachers, or businesspeople, wikis allow for a freeform structure to evolve. If there is data, then it can be incorporated as the user sees fit. All that is required is a basic framework for adding, editing, deleting, and linking content. This is all possible now, through conventional wikis and the manual upload of scanned images. However, we want to make it as easy to use and as natural as possible. Anoto technology can help.
Solution
We need to solve a few problems for our implementation:
Editing: We need special gestures to indicate editing commands: adding, updating, deleting, whether to OCR or not, linking, etc.
Linking: We need to make it possible to link pages by hand. Draw a special symbol on one page and then on another page to link. This link will then appear on the online wiki.
Syncing: We need to make sure the edits are incorporated into the online version accurately, and vice versa for updated digital paper printouts. We need to allow for versioning as well. This process needs to be as smooth as possible.
Sketch
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