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Questions Not Answers : A Novel Mobile Search Technique. Matt Jones, George Buchanan & Dave Arter FIT Lab, Computer Science Swansea University. Richard Harper & Pierre-Louis Xech Microsoft Research 7 J J Thomson Ave, Cambridge UK. Soho Café Dance music
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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
Soho Café Dance music Glamour wear - Covent Garden Ballet music Quick lunch 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
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.