questions not answers : a novel mobile search technique

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Questions Not Answers:

A Novel Mobile Search Technique

Matt Jones, George Buchanan & Dave Arter

FIT Lab, Computer ScienceSwansea University

Richard Harper &

Pierre-Louis Xech

Microsoft Research7 J J Thomson Ave,

Cambridge UK

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What? & Why?

• What– Display queries other

people are making in a location.

• Why– For ‘free’.– Minimal interaction.– Promotes interaction.– Queries distil aspirations,

values, character.– Dynamic view captures

the changing dialogue people have with a place.

Prototypes and Experiments

• Tablet PC to gather and re-present in situ queries– CHI 2007 Note

• PDA implementation and diary study– Mobile HCI paper

• In progress– Live search prototype– Further comparisons

with alternates

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Two Videos follow…

• First - in situ queries collaged on PDA

• Second - to contrast with the ‘push’ style interaction of QnA, we have build an active, place-browser.– Select region of location you are

interested in.– Search tool returns all web documents

related to that area.

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