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Rethinking QR code: analog portal to digital world

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In this paper, we are introducing a new view for the applications and the activities using QR codes to access the information for the objects existing in everyday human environment. This view emphasizes the possibility of the QR codes as an Analog Portal—an ambient media gate to the Digital World, because it shows the new way of access to the Internet and may be able to change the culture of retrieving information when the QR code infrastructure becomes mature.

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  1. KT Network Laboratory, 463-1 Jeonmin, Yuseong, 305-811, Daejeon, South Korea

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Baik, S. Rethinking QR code: analog portal to digital world. Multimed Tools Appl 58, 427–434 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0686-9

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