Beat Signer

Dr. sc. techn. ETH

Personal Homepage:
www.globis.ethz.ch/people/signerb/
Current place of employment:
ETH Zurich

My research focuses on interactive paper and cross-media information systems. As part of my PhD thesis, I investigated fundamental concepts for interactive paper and cross-media information spaces resulting in the general resource-selector-link (RSL) metamodel that generalises document and open hypermedia models. The iServer platform represents our implementation of the RSL model that can be extended by different resource plug-ins for integrating different types of physical and digital media.

As part of the European Paper++ and PaperWorks projects, I developed the interactive paper (iPaper) framework for integrating paper and digital services and information. Different solutions for innovative forms of interactive paper document publishing have been realised and the iPaper framework has been applied in a variety of applications including PaperPoint, EdFest, Generosa Enterprise, the Lost Cosmonaut, Print-n-Link, PaperProof and other solutions. We also recently released iGesture a general framework for gesture recognition under an open source license. Based on the experience that we gained from realising the interactive paper applications, I am currently investigating general design patterns and paper widgets for the new type of paper-digital user interfaces.

More recently, I started to extend the RSL metamodel, to deal not only with navigational cross-media linking, but also enable the structural representation of new forms of cross-media documents and information spaces. Furthermore, the open source iGesture framework is currently extended to support new types of gestures (e.g. 3D gestures).

General research interests: Interactive Paper and Paper-based User Interfaces, Web Information Systems, Cross-Media Information Systems, Multimodal Interaction, Document Engineering, Ubiquitous and Tangible Computing, Object Databases, Software Engineering.

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Signer, Beat (2008): Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces.
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Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Weibel, Nadir (2008): Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries. In: ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries September 14-19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark. .

Weibel, Nadir, Ispas, Adriana, Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2008): PaperProof: A Paper-Digital Proof-Editing System. In: CHI 5-10 April, 2008, Florence, Italy. pp. 2349-2354. Available online

Liwicki, Marcus, Schumacher, Kinga, Dengel, Andreas, Weibel, Nadir, Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2008): Pen and Paper-based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop. In: DAS 2008, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems September 16-19, 2008, Nara, Japan. .

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Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2007): PaperPoint: A Paper-Based Presentation and Interactive Paper Prototyping Tool. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007. pp. 57-64. Available online

Weibel, Nadir, Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2007): A Model for Mapping between Printed and Digital Document Instances. In: Proceedings of DocEng 2007, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering August 28-31, 2007, Winnipeg, Canada. .

Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat, Grossniklaus, Michael, Belotti, Rudi, Decurtins, Corsin and Weibel, Nadir (2007): Context-Aware Platform for Mobile Data Management. In Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET),

Grossniklaus, Michael, Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Weibel, Nadir (2007): Producing Interactive Paper Documents based on Multi-Channel Content Publishing. In: Grossniklaus, Michael (ed.) Proceedings of AXMEDIS 2007, 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution November 28-30, 2007, Barcelona, Spain. . Available online

Signer, Beat and Ponti, Patrick (eds.) Proceedings of CoPADD 2007, 2nd Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents November 9, 2007, London, UK.

Weibel, Nadir, Signer, Beat, Ponti, Patrick and Norrie, Moira C. (2007): PaperProof: A Paper-Digital Proof-Editing System. In: Signer, Beat and Ponti, Patrick (eds.) Proceedings of CoPADD 2007, 2nd Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents November 9, 2007, London, UK. . Available online

Signer, Beat, Norrie, Moira C. and Kurmann, Ueli (2007). iGesture: A Java Framework for the Development and Deployment of Stroke-Based Online Gesture Recognition Algorithms. Technical Report ETH Zurich, TR561 http://www.inf.ethz.ch/research/disstechreps/techreports/show?serial=561&lang=en

Signer, Beat, Grossniklaus, Michael and Norrie, Moira C. (2007): Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-Channel Web Information System. In World Wide Web Journal (WWW), 10 (4)

Signer, Beat, Kurmann, Ueli and Norrie, Moira C. (2007): iGesture: A General Gesture Recognition Framework. In: Proceedings of ICDAR 2007, 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition September, 2007, Curitiba, Brazil. .

Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2007): As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems. In: Proceedings of ER 2007, 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling November, 2007, Auckland, New Zealand. .

Springmann, Michael, Ispas, Adriana, Schuldt, Heiko, Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2007): Towards Query by Sketch, Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries. In: Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries December, 2007, Pisa, Italy. .

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Signer, Beat (2006). Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces. Dissertation ETH No. 16218, ETH Zurich http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/show.pl?type=diss&nr=16218

Signer, Beat, Norrie, Moira C., Grossniklaus, Michael, Belotti, Rudi, Decurtins, Corsin and Weibel, Nadir (2006): Paper-Based Mobile Access to Databases. In: Demo Proceedings the SIGMOD 2006 International Conference Management of Data June 26-29, 2006, Chicago, USA. pp. 763-765. Available online

Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Weibel, Nadir (2006): Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web. In: Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering October 10-13, 2006, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. pp. 34-43. Available online

Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Weibel, Nadir (2006): General Framework for the Rapid Development of Interactive Paper Applications. In: Proceedings of CoPADD 2006, Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents November 4, 2006, Banff, Canada. . Available online

Grossniklaus, Michael, Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Weibel, Nadir (2006): Putting Location-Based Services on the Map. In: Proceedings of W2GIS 2006, 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems December 4-5, 2006, Hong Kong, China. pp. 1-11. Available online

Signer, Beat (ed.) Proceedings of CoPADD 2006, 1st Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents November, 2006, Banff, Canada.

Spindler, Alexandre de, Norrie, Moira C., Grossniklaus, Michael and Signer, Beat (2006): Spatio-Temporal Proximity as a Basis for Collaborative Filtering in Mobile Environments. In: UMICS 2006, Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems June, 2006, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. .

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Vogelsang, Axel and Signer, Beat (2005): The Lost Cosmonaut: An Interactive Narrative Environment on Basis. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual Storytelling November 30-December 2, 2005, Strasbourg, France. pp. 270-279.

Belotti, Rudi, Decurtins, Corsin, Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Vukelja, Ljiljana (2005): Experimental Platform for Mobile Information Systems. In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking August 28-September 2, 2005, Cologne, Germany. pp. 258-269. Available online

Tallyn, Ella, Frohlich, David M., Linketscher, Nadja and Signer, Beat (2005): Using Paper to Support Collaboration in Educational ActivitiesUsing Paper to Support Collaboration in Educational Activities. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning May 30-June 4, 2005, Taipai, Taiwan. pp. 672-676. Available online

Norrie, Moira C., Palinginis, Alexios and Signer, Beat (2005): Content Publishing Framework for Interactive Paper Documents. In: Proceedings of DocEng 2005, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering November, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom. .

Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2005): A Framework for Cross-media Information Management. In: Proceedings of EuroIMSA 2005, International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications February, 2005, Grindelwald, Switzerland. . Available online

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2005): Overlaying Paper Maps with Digital Information Services for Tourists. In: Proceedings of ENTER 2005, 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel and Tourism January, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria. .

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2005): Information Server for Highly-Connected Cross-Media Publishing. In Information Systems, 30 (7)

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Luff, Paul, Heath, Christian, Norrie, Moira, Signer, Beat and Herdman, Peter (2004): Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 523-532. Available online

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Decurtins, Corsin, Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2003): Putting the Gloss on Paper: A Framework for Cross-Media Annotation. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 9 (0) pp. 35-57

Signer, Beat and Norrie, Moira C. (2003): Multi-layered cross-media linking. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext 2003. pp. 106-107. Available online

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2003): Switching over to Paper: A New Web Channel. In: Proceedings of WISE 2003, 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering December, 2003, Rome, Italy. . Available online

Decurtins, Corsin, Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2003): Digital Annotation of Printed Documents. In: Proceedings of CIKM 2003, 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November, 2003, New Orleans, USA. .

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2003): Issues of Information Semantics and Granularity in Cross-Media Publishing. In: Proceedings of CAiSE 2003, 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering June, 2003, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria. . Available online

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2003): Web-Based Integration of Printed and Digital Information. In: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2590".

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Signer, Beat, Norrie, Moira C., Geissbuehler, Peter and Heiniger, Daniel (2002): Aural Interfaces to Databases based on VoiceXML. In: Proceedings of VDB6, 6th IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems May, 2002, Brisbane, Australia. .

Norrie, Moira C. and Signer, Beat (2002): Web-Based Integration of Printed and Digital Information. In: Proceedings of DiWeb 2, 2nd Workshop on Data Integration over the Web May, 2002, Toronto, Canada. .

Signer, Beat, Norrie, Moira C., Geissbuehler, Peter and Heiniger, Daniel (2002): Telephone Interface for Avalanche Warnings based on Information Server for Adaptable Content Delivery. In: Proceedings of Pervasive 2002, International Conference on Pervasive Computing August, 2002, Zurich, Switzerland. .

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Kobler, Adrian, Norrie, Moira C., Signer, Beat and Grossniklaus, Michael (2001): OMS Java: Providing Information, Storage and Access Abstractions in an Object-Oriented Framework. In: Proceedings of OOIS 2002, 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems August, 2001, Calgary, Canada. .

Signer, Beat, Grossniklaus, Michael and Norrie, Moira C. (2001): Java Framework for Database-Centric Web Engineering. In: Proceedings of WebE 2001, 4th Workshop on Web Engineering, In conjunction with 10th World Wide Web Conference May, 2001, Hong Kong. .

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Signer, Beat, Erni, Antonia and Norrie, Moira C. (2000): A Personal Assistant for Web Database Caching. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering June 5-9, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 64-78. Available online