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InfoCruise: Information Navigation Using a Focus Facet Based on Context

Authors:
Izumi Kohno
Yoji Miyazaki
Teruya Ikegami
Masaki Hara
Koji Kida

Keywords: information retrieval, exploratory search, user interface, faceted navigation, user context

Abstract:
To find desired information by mobile phones, it is necessary to set search keywords easily and to explore a search if a user’s information needs are not well defined. We propose an information navigation method to help users successfully find information by mobile phones. Our proposed method presents users a focus facet by analyzing the context about contents, users, and dialogs. The focus facet is presented each time users refine a search. They can select a keyword from the facet, check the search results, and then define their ambiguous needs through interaction. We compared our method with traditional search methods. InfoCruise effectively discovers desired information, because its discovery rate and the satisfaction rating are higher than those of the traditional search methods. InfoCruise efficiently searches, because both the keyword correction rate and the number of times users changed facets in it are lower than those in traditional search methods.

Pages: 1 to 11

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 7, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679