POEMS: A Paper Based Meeting Service Management Tool

This paper proposes POEMS (paper offered environment management service) that can facilitate the activation of various services with a pen and paper based interface. With this tool, meeting participants can control meeting support devices on the same paper that they take notes. Additionally, a meeting participant can also share his/her paper drawings on a selected public display or initiate a collaborative discussion on a selected public display with a page of paper. Compared with traditional interfaces, such as tablet PC or PDA based interfaces, the interface of this tool has much higher resolution and is much cheaper and easier to deploy. The paper interface is also natural to use for ordinary people. With this tool, the screens are automatically started when a pen is pressed on a piece of paper. A presenter can control his/her presentation progress with time-stamped paper taps or drawings. A meeting participant can use the pen to share writing or make annotations on a public display. Users can use the pen to control pointers on public displays. They can use the pen to control a slideshow playback.