The invention concerns a method and system for enabling collaborative
document markup. Employing the invention involves the use of one or more
forms which support interaction with a computer system or network. Each
form is printed on sheet material such as paper and includes coded data
which allows it to be used to interact with the computer system via a
sensing device operated by a user.Specifically, the method includes the
steps of providing a participant with at least one document markup form
containing information relating to a collaborative document markup
session and including coded data indicative of an identity of the
document markup form and of at least one reference point of the document
markup form, receiving, in a computer system, indicating data from a
sensing device operated by said participant involved in the document
markup session, said indicating data regarding the identity of the
document markup form and a position of the sensing device relative to the
document markup form, the sensing device, when placed in an operative
position relative to the document markup form, sensing the indicating
data using at least some of the coded data, identifying in the computer
system and from the indicating data, at least one parameter relating to
the document markup session, and providing at least one other participant
remote from said participant with at least one document markup form
containing information representative of the at least one parameter.The
invention can be employed by geographically distributed participants to
mark up a shared document using interactive surface media, while engaged
in a telephone conference or similar. Every time a participant adds a
markup to the document the other participants can be provided with a
printed copy of the updated page.