Amanjot Kaur Sandhu

Design Intervention of paper artifacts with virtual world

6 months | Individual | HP Labs, Bangalore | National Institute of Design

Publication : Invention Disclosure published in Research Disclosure, June 2012

Exhibition: Selected and showcased at Annual NID Graduate Show, New Delhi, 2011

Challenge

The project objective was to explore the ways in which paper artifacts (printed or handwritten or both) can be linked to digital information – using a camera enabled mobile device or on a fixed display camera and using appropriate gestural and spoken interaction according to the user needs. The main focus was on designing the interfaces and the interactions to bridge the gap between physical and the digital world.

Solution

A thorough & holistic design process was carried out to understand paper from design perspective, which essentially consisted of brainstorming, categorization, user research, contextual interviews, concept development, interaction design, visual design, information design & low and high fidelity prototyping.

Designed an archival system where people can click and store their documents’ digital copy for future use. Camera enabled mobile phone is taken as the medium to deploy the application. It is a mobile based application with the guidelines of Palm Pre Phone. Different modalities (Speech, touch and text) were used to save people’s time in organizing the documents in digital world.An interactive prototype has been made which explains various features of the application.