Content transformation

Research opportunities & challenges

Content Transformation describes the seamless transfer of content between physical and digital media, and the access to content wherever customers desire. HPL’s research seeks to enable a complete convergence of physical and digital information that provides users with new, intuitive, powerful ways of interacting with information.

The exponential growth of published content—print and digital—is changing the way people access and interact with information. Content creators and consumers are demanding more personalization, more channels and timely access to information.

Several challenges impede the convergence of physical and digital information. Today, content is not simultaneously easy to find, access and repurpose. While paper-based, hand-annotated documents are convenient, these documents are static, hard to scan, and they inhibit real-time collaboration. Displays are cumbersome, power hungry, fragile and work poorly in many lighting conditions. And, within the enterprise, the movement of content between repositories is awkward, time consuming and can slow down business decision-making.