) ,
- SPEECH SYNTHESIS ( 4 ) ;
4.2.5 . OFFICE LANGUAGES
- OFFICE DOCUMENT LANGUAGE ( 4 ) ,
- OFFICE INTERFACE LANGUAGE ( 4 ) .
PILOT PROJECTS ARE UNDERWAY IN THE VISION INTERFACE , PAPER INTERFACE , SPEECH INTERFACE AND OFFICE LANGUAGE R AND D AREAS .
TYPE A PROJECTS
PROJECTS ON THE TOPICS LISTED BELOW ARE PLANNED TO BE STARTED IN 1984/85 . THE SUPPORT OF MORE THAN ONE PROJECT ON R AND D TOPIC 4.2.1 IS CONSIDERED .
4.2.1 . SYSTEM ASPECTS OF WORKSTATION DESIGN
DESCRIPTION
THE ELABORATION OF A GENERAL ARCHITECTURE WHICH WILL ALLOW THE INTEGRATION OF THE SUBSYSTEMS HANDLING THE MULTIMEDIA INPUT/OUTPUT ( VIZ . VISION , PAPER , SPEECH , LANGUAGE ) , THE FILING SUBSYSTEM AND THE NETWORK INTERFACES IN AN ARCHITECTURALLY HOMOGENEOUS WORKSTATION BOTH FROM THE HARDWARE , THE SOFTWARE AND THE HUMAN FACTORS POINT OF VIEW .
PROTOTYPES SHALL BE DEVELOPED AND TESTED THOROUGHLY IN ADEQUATE ENVIRONMENTS AND IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS TO ALLOW QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION ON A STATISTICALLY SOUND BASIS .
PROGRAMME
YEAR 1 :
- DEFINITION OF A MODEL OF MAN/MACHINE INTERACTION ;
- DEFINITION OF COMPUTER PERFORMANCE , STORAGE REQUIREMENTS ;
- DEFINITION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF ADVANCED INTERFACES ;
- DEFINITION OF WORKSTATION ARCHITECTURE .
YEAR 2 :
- ASSEMBLY OF SUBSYSTEMS AND START SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION .
YEAR 3 :
- COMPLETION OF SOFTWARE EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION ;
- TEST OF WORKSTATION ; EVALUATION OF RESULTS .
YEAR 4 :
- CONTINUED EVALUATION OF EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION IN A NUMBER OF ENVIRONMENTS ( LINKS WITH NETWORK AND SEVERS REQUIRED ) ;
- DEFINITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF ADVANCED WORKSTATION INTERFACES TO MULTIMEDIA INPUT/OUTPUT , FILING SYSTEM , NETWORK , ETC . ;
- COMPLETION OF LANGUAGE INTERFACE .
YEAR 5 :
- ASSEMBLY OF ADVANCED WORKSTATION ;
- IDENTIFICATION OF TEST-SITES , REQUIREMENTS .
INTERMEDIATE OBJECTIVES
12TH MONTH
- SPECIFICATION OF EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION ARCHITECTURE ;
24TH MONTH
- EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION OPERATIONAL ;
36TH MONTH
- EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION EVALUATION ;
48TH MONTH
- SPECIFICATION OF ADVANCED WORKSTATION INTERFACES ( MULTIMEDIA NETWORK ) ;
60TH MONTH
- ADVANCED WORKSTATION OPERATIONAL .
4.2.3 . PAPER INTERFACE
DESCRIPTION
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEVICES FOR THE SCANNING , THE HARD COPYING OF GRAPHIC INFORMATION ( LIKE TYPEWRITTEN , PRINTED , HANDWRITTEN AND COMBINATION THEREOF ; INCLUDING TEXT AND IMAGES OF VARIOUS KINDS ) , AND THE PROCESSING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS ( E . G . UNCODED DIGITAL I/O , CODING WITH REDUNDANCE , REDUCTION , ETC . ) .
PROJECTS IN THIS AREA MAY CONTAIN TOPICS LISTED UNDER TYPE B PROJECTS .
PROGRAMME
YEAR 1 :
- STUDY OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF THE TECHNOLOGY FOR SCANNERS , BIT-MAP PRINTERS , GRAPHICS CODING AND RECOGNITION ;
- SPECIFICATION OF OMNIFONT RECOGNIZER ;
- SPECIFICATION OF GRAPHICS CODER .
YEAR 2 :
- SPECIFICATION OF A MULTICOLOUR SCANNER ;
- SPECIFICATION OF A MULTICOLOUR PRINTER ;
- REALIZATION OF OMNIFONT CHARACTER RECOGNITION .
YEAR 3 :
- DEVELOPMENT OF CODING ALGORITHMS