Digital paper bookmarks
Jürgen Steimle, Oliver Brdiczka, Max Mühlhäuser · 2008
Bookmarks provide an efficient and well established means for structuring, indexing and tagging documents, all important processes for successful learning. We present a prototype of Digital Paper Bookmarks, writable adhesive stickers which combine the intuitiveness of paper bookmarks with electronic processing. Electronic tracking of the bookmarking actions performed on a paper printout provides for tangible bookmarking and tagging of electronic documents. A collaborative visualization of own bookmarks and shared ones of other users allows contrasting the own understanding with those of others. Four different semantic types of bookmarks scaffold learners in their learning processes and enable automatic aggregations.