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Cross-Domain Query Navigation System for Touchscreens by Exploiting Social Search History

Authors:
Ryo Shimaoka
Shuichi Kurabayashi

Keywords: Query Navigation; Personalization; User Interface; Collective Intelligence; Web Search Engine.

Abstract:
Tablets and smartphones have gained immense popularity in recent times, and it is envisaged that they will increasingly be the devices of choice for users accessing the Internet. However, the user interface of conventional Web search engines, which employ keywords that require many taps by the user, are unsuitable for mobile terminals, which are normally equipped with touchscreens. We propose a cross-domain query navigation system that reduces the taps required for inputting queries by providing a content-dependent word map that presents the relevance between keywords. This word map presents keywords that enable both narrowing action, whereby users append a new keyword to specify the context of a query, and sliding action, whereby users replace a keyword to change the query context. The word map is unique in that it recommends queries for narrowing and sliding transitions by computing these two types of directional relevance between input keyword and another keyword in the log. The system is applicable to the existing query logs of search engines, social networking services, and users’ browsers, enabling users to control the term recommendation by selecting the logs to be analyzed. The recommendation may be a commonly recognized relevant term from the global query logs of search engines or a personalized term from the user’s browser history.

Pages: 178 to 183

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: May 27, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-200-4

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Dates: from May 27, 2012 to June 1, 2012