Interactive Newsprint: A new platform for community news display

为了让社区实现新政府的目标，即变得更具弹性、自力更生，并最终实现自筹资金和得到治理，它们需要在沟通方式上进行阶段性改变。在这个项目中，我们计划开发一个全新的基于互动新闻纸的社区新闻平台。这是由于印刷电子技术的发展，现在印刷电子设备允许将各种数字设备和接口构建到纸质文档中，包括音频存储、扬声器、麦克风、按钮、滑块、LED显示器、变色纤维、LED文本显示器和移动通信。虽然这项技术有许多可能的配置和用途来支持新的阅读和写作形式，但我们计划探索与当地新闻传播有关的那些。现有形式的当地新闻和内容将被用来开发一系列互动纸质文件，并在实验室和实地环境中进行测试。这将探索数字讲故事的新形式，以及将社区与当地新闻和信息联系起来的更有效方式。为此，我们的目标是利用英国塑料和印刷电子行业在互动新闻纸中传递超本地化新闻内容的世界领先能力的潜力。这项技术目前有三个强大的特性，我们计划在这种情况下开发：1)将触摸敏感区域打印到纸上(输入控制)，2)打印灵活的纸张-薄文本显示器(纸上的屏幕)，3)打印扬声器(纸上的声音)。这项技术是许多其他增强纸技术的替代，包括印刷的2D光学或导电码，其设计用于结合用于相关内容(例如，Anoto、QR码)的单独的基于屏幕的播放器来读取。在交互式印刷文本中，数字内容被编码在纸本身的嵌入式芯片上，或者以文本形式编码，可以通过本地纤维显示或通过其振动播放。这项研究建立在数字经济计划项目“定制”(www.bepokeproject)的基础上。

In order for communities to meet the new governments' objectives of becoming more resilient, self reliant and ultimately self-funded and governed, they need a step-change in the way they communicate. In this project we plan to develop an entirely new platform for community news based on interactive newsprint. This is enabled by developments in printed electronics which now allow various digital devices and interfaces to be built into paper documents, including audio storage, speakers, microphones, buttons, sliders, led displays, colour changing fibres, led text displays and mobile communication. While there are many possible configurations and uses of this technology for supporting new forms of reading and writing, we plan to explore those relating to the communication of local news. Existing forms of local journalism and content will be used to develop a range of interactive paper documents and test them out in both a lab and field setting. This will explore new forms of digital storytelling and more effective ways of connecting communities to local news and information. To do this we aim to harness the potential of the world leading capacity of the UK's Plastic and Printed Electronics industry for the delivery of hyper-local news content in interactive newsprint. The technology currently has three robust properties that we plan to exploit in this context: 1) Printing touch sensitive areas to paper (input control), 2) Printing flexible paper-thin text displays (screens on paper), 3) Printing speakers (sound from paper). This technology is an alternative to a number of other augmented paper technologies comprising printed 2D optical or conductive codes designed to be read in conjunction with a separate screen-based player for associated content (e.g. anoto, QR codes). In interactive printed text, digital content is encoded in the paper itself on embedded chips or in textual form which can literally be displayed through local fibres or played through their vibration. This research buidls on the Digital Economy Programme Project 'Bespoke' (www.bespokeproject.org).