TY - GEN
T1 - Printing paper technology for development
AU - Ming, Joy
AU - Ghosh, Ishita
AU - Chen, Jay
AU - Abouzied, Azza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/12/5
Y1 - 2014/12/5
N2 - Despite the recent push toward leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) for replacing paper-based tasks, there remain many barriers to designing deployable and appropriate technical solutions that replace paper. As a result, paper tools such as forms, charts, and graphs continue to be widely used in low-resource organizations working in developing regions. However, designing effective paper-based tools that perform computation-like tasks such as addition, subtraction, lookup, and visualization can be difficult. In this demo, we present printr, a system that allows a pub- lisher to rapidly generate and print these "smart" paper tools. With printr we demonstrate one way to improve pa- per tools and leverage benefits of both paper and ICTs with only a fraction of the development, deployment, training, and operational costs of software applications.
AB - Despite the recent push toward leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) for replacing paper-based tasks, there remain many barriers to designing deployable and appropriate technical solutions that replace paper. As a result, paper tools such as forms, charts, and graphs continue to be widely used in low-resource organizations working in developing regions. However, designing effective paper-based tools that perform computation-like tasks such as addition, subtraction, lookup, and visualization can be difficult. In this demo, we present printr, a system that allows a pub- lisher to rapidly generate and print these "smart" paper tools. With printr we demonstrate one way to improve pa- per tools and leverage benefits of both paper and ICTs with only a fraction of the development, deployment, training, and operational costs of software applications.
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U2 - 10.1145/2674377.2678268
DO - 10.1145/2674377.2678268
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84920485858
T3 - ACM DEV-5 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
SP - 117
EP - 118
BT - ACM DEV-5 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 5th ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2014
Y2 - 5 December 2014 through 6 December 2014
ER -