Topic:

Accelerated by the Corona Pandemic, the exchange of documents for interpersonal communication is becoming increasingly important. Paper and digital documents are the main media used today. The decision which of these two media is used depends on the situation and is based on the advantages of the respective medium. In the context of this project, a structured overview is therefore to be created that summarizes the affordances of paper and compares them with those of other media. With this taxonomy it will then be possible to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of paper in specific applications. Based on this taxonomy, the still missing affordances of digital media will be derived in order to completely replace paper-based processes.

• Literature research
• Surveys
• Observation
• Clustering of Affordances
• Creating a taxonomy
• Evaluation of the taxonomy using meaningful metrics and test cases

• Sarah Graf, M.Sc. Media Informatics
• Sarah Feix, M. Sc. Media Informatics
• Nadine Schweiger, M. Sc. Media Informatics

Supervisor of this project: Dr. Raphael Wimmer