EQUALLY RELEVANT . CONNECTIONS TO LOCAL AREA NETWORKS AND/OR PUBLIC NETWORKS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED .
MUCH OF THE SOFTWARE THAT SUPPORTS THE USER WILL RESIDE IN THE WORKSTATION . ANY RULES THAT ARE , OR WILL BE , AGREED UPON IN ORDER TO IMPROVE PORTABILITY OF SOFTWARE , SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED . THIS APPLIES AS WELL TO RULES AND AGREEMENTS WITH RESPECT TO OTHER ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM .
R AND D AREA TOPICS
THE FOLLOWING R AND D TOPICS ARE IDENTIFIED :
4.2.1 . SYSTEM ASPECTS
- SYSTEM ASPECTS OF WORKSTATION DESIGN ( TYPE A )
- WORKSTATION SECURITY
- ADVANCED MULTI-MEDIA HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES
4.2.2 . VISION
- VISION INTERFACE ( TYPE A )
- FLAT PANEL WORKSTATION DESIGN ( TYPE A )
- HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO IMAGER
- IMAGE CODING
4.2.3 . PAPER
- PAPER INTERFACE ( TYPE A )
- ADVANCED SCANNER
- ADVANCED PRINTER
- MICROFILM INTERFACE
- GRAPHICS CODING
- GRAPHICS RECOGNITION
- INTELLIGENT GRAPHICS RECOGNITION
4.2.4 . SPEECH
- SPEECH INTERFACE ( TYPE A )
- SPEECH CODING
- SPEECH RECOGNITION
- SPEECH SYNTHESIS
- INTELLIGENT SPEECH RECOGNITION .
4.2.5 . OFFICE LANGUAGES AND PROCEDURES
- OFFICE DOCUMENT ARCHITECTURES AND LANGUAGES
- OFFICE INTERFACE LANGUAGES
- MULTI-MEDIA DOCUMENT MANIPULATION
- INTELLIGENT USER FUNCTION SUPPORT
- USER TO USER MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION .
TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS
4.2.1 . SYSTEM ASPECTS
. SYSTEM ASPECTS OF WORKSTATION DESIGN . ( TYPE A )
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 SUBSYSTEMS , EXPERT SYSTEMS AND THE NETWORK INTERFACES IN AN ARCHITECTURALLY HOMOGENOUS WORKSTATION BOTH FROM THE HARDWARE , THE SOFTWARE AND THE HUMAN FACTORS POINT OF VIEW . THIS INCLUDES DESIGN OF INTERFACES BASED ON NEW TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS FOR USER INPUT/OUTPUT .
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 .
WORKSTATION IS A GENERIC TERM FOR A RANGE OF DEVICES - INCLUDING SOFTWARE - THAT SERVE AS THE ACTIVE INTERFACE OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH THE HUMAN USER IN A WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS . FOR REASONS OF EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PROGRAMME , THE PROJECTS SELECTED ARE LIKELY TO ADDRESS WIDE APPLICATION AREAS OR APPLICATIONS WITH VERSATILE REQUIREMENTS .
A SPECIAL CASE THAT REQUIRED RAPID DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE OF IT'S UTILITY FOR THE R AND D ITSELF IS THE RESEARCH WORKSTATION , THAT ITSELF MAY BE AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE FOR ANOTHER GENERATION OF OFFICE WORKSTATIONS .
PROGRAMME ( - ) AND INTERMEDIATE OBJECTIVES ( * ) :
YEAR 1 :
- DEFINITION OF A MODEL OF HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION ;
- DEFINITION OF COMPUTER PERFORMANCE , STORAGE REQUIREMENTS ;
- DEFINITION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF ADVANCED INTERFACES ;
- DEFINITION OF WORKSTATION ARCHITECTURE , RESEARCH WORKSTATION DEFINITION ;
- IMPACT ON EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES ( IF ANY ) .
* 12TH MONTH : SPECIFICATION OF EXPERIMENTAL WORKSTATION