  We present U-Note, an augmented teaching and learning system leveraging the
advantages of paper while letting teachers and pupils benefit from the richness
that digital media can bring to a lecture. U-Note provides automatic linking
between the notes of the pupils' notebooks and various events that occurred
during the class (such as opening digital documents, changing slides, writing
text on an interactive whiteboard...). Pupils can thus explore their notes in
conjunction with the digital documents that were presented by the teacher
during the lesson. Additionally, they can also listen to what the teacher was
saying when a given note was written. Finally, they can add their own comments
and documents to their notebooks to extend their lecture notes. We interviewed
teachers and deployed questionnaires to identify both teachers and pupils'
habits: most of the teachers use (or would like to use) digital documents in
their lectures but have problems in sharing these resources with their pupils.
The results of this study also show that paper remains the primary medium used
for knowledge keeping, sharing and editing by the pupils. Based on these
observations, we designed U-Note, which is built on three modules. U-Teach
captures the context of the class: audio recordings, the whiteboard contents,
together with the web pages, videos and slideshows displayed during the lesson.
U-Study binds pupils' paper notes (taken with an Anoto digital pen) with the
data coming from U-Teach and lets pupils access the class materials at home,
through their notebooks. U-Move lets pupils browse lecture materials on their
smartphone when they are not in front of a computer.
