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describes the affinity of paper documents that exists due to their tangible
nature or due to the ability to simply leave notes or annotation on the
medium.
Given these studies, one can keep hold of several affordances of paper
maps and compare them to the affordances of electronic mobile devices
(
table 1
). One should consider if the affordances of paper maps and digital
navigation systems together can help to better serve the goals of the user
by creating
combinations
of the best of both the paper and digital worlds
(Sellen and Harper 2001).
Table 1: Affordances of paper maps and electronic devices
In recent years there have been several research activities involved in the
combination with paper and digital media. An integration of functionality
of electronic maps and paper maps is described by Paelke and Sester
(2007). Digital interactive paper has been a subject in the Global Informa-
tion Systems Group (Globis) at ETH Zürich. Thereby an event guide for a
festival in Edinburgh that included a map has been developed based on
Anoto technology. Besides that a digitally enhanced version of a commer-
cial tourist guide has been tested (Norrie 2009). At Stanford University an
interaction with a map and a digital pen has been developed, that enables
users to access geotagged photos by tipping on the map with the pen.
Equally a map to support biologists in their field work has been developed
