Next generation paper markets

A covid-extension project to understand the market for next generation paper technology with business partners.

Start date

January 2021

End date

August 2021

Overview

We have developed an authoring and playback system for augmented books, using both augmented reality and 'internet of things' technologies. This was tested on professional and self-made content in the travel domain, through the creation of augmented travel guides and photobooks. Business engagement with the travel and tourism industry was affected by the global pandemic towards the end of the project in 2020.

This project aims to redress this by working closely with three companies to test our approach in their market: Bradt Travel Guides, Futurum Magazine and Thingtale. To do this, we will create a cross-platform version of the NGP Player app for Apple IOS as well as Android, author two new augmented books (for Futurum and Thingtale) and collect feedback from Bradt Travel Guides and Futurum customers (unfortunately the start-up Thingtale ceased trading during the project).

We will also progress and publish technical work on a ‘magic bookmark’ for page recognition, complete a project film and present the next generation paper (NGP) approach at the British Science Festival in Chelmsford on 10 September 2021.

Funding amount

£203,583

Funder

UK Research and Innovation

Team

Principal investigators

Professor David Frohlich

Director, Digital World Research Centre

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Co-investigators

Professor Caroline Scarles

Director of Centre of Digital Transformation in the Visitor Economy

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Professor Miroslaw Bober

Professor of Video Processing

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Dr Radu Sporea

Senior Lecturer in Semiconductor Devices

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Professor George Revill

The Open University

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Research

Dr Haiyue Yuan

Research Fellow

Gina Katsiani

Research Assistant

Elisa Mameli

Research assistant

Georgios Bairaktaris

Postgraduate Researcher

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News

Next generation paper markets being presented by team member

The Next Generation Paper Markets project finishes with a flourish

1 October 2021

Outputs

Software

Cross-platform NGP Player for:

Android
Apple IOS.

Publications

Bairaktaris G., Frohlich D.M. & Sporea R.A (2021) Printed Light Tags and the Magic Bookmark: Using light to augment paper objects. In press for CHI 2021 Conference Proceedings, New York: ACM Press.

Bairaktaris, G., Frohlich, D. M., & Sporea, R. A. (2021, June). Flexible optical bookmark for open-page recognition in augmented paper. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.