Newsputers: Digitally enhanced printouts supporting pervasive multimodal interactions

In this work we introduce the concept of newsputers as digitally enhanced printouts, allowing real-time access to computer-based multimedia information through paper-based interfaces. Newsputers could serve as conventional newspapers, books, magazines, etc. and in addition as clickable layouts and templates for invoking special functions and for accessing complementary information in different pervasive environments. We further propose a novel software system for providing newsputer-enabling support to publishers and readers, discuss its design and development, and finally report the resulting reference implementation and experiments.