Leveraging Passive Paper Piles to Active Objects in Personal Knowledge Spaces

This paper presents a novel prototype for an intelligent office appliance which results from an integration of three state-of-the-art office applications/appliances: a workflow system, a document classification system, and a multi-functional peripheral. The resulting system allows for leveraging an office worker’s papers to her personal knowledge space in order to realize an pro-active and context-sensitive information support within knowledge-intensive tasks and processes.