---
title: "The Self-Organizing Desk"
authors:
  - "Daniela Rus"
  - "Peter de Santis"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/110"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0110.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "758-762"
track: "Information Retrieval"
keywords:
---

# The Self-Organizing Desk

Daniela Rus, Peter de Santis

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 758-762.

## Abstract

The self-organizing desk is a system that enhances a physical desk-top with electronic information. It can remember, organize, update, and manipulate the information contained in the documents on a desk. The system consists of a simple robot eye that can survey the desk, a module for smart extraction of information from the images taken by the robot, a module for representing this information in multiple views, and a module that allows a user to interact with this information.