EClerk office assistant

For decades, people have continued to collect an inordinate amount of paper documents containing important information that should be easily accessible. This paper clutter inhibits indexing this information and easily searching through it. This thesis presents the code architecture and user interface design of the Electronic Clerk, a proof-of-concept electronic office assistant. The Electronic Clerk (EClerk) is a device to assist in reducing paper clutter in the office environment. The device takes paper and speech as input, performs data binding between input streams in order to attach metadata to each document, and structures the data using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard. The hardware structure of EClerk consists of a dedicated computer, video camera, scanner, touchscreen, and microphone for capturing input. The software structure consists of the Galaxy speech recognition system, the Haystack information client for retrieval and modification of the collected data, optical character recognition, and a graphical user interface that provides continuous feedback to the user. Primary design principles for this device include providing continuous user feedback and robustness to imperfect input in order to provide a truly usable system.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Wolfe, Jonathan Eric

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Seth Teller.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33390

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/33390