After fifteen years of CBR conferences, this paper sets out to examine the themes that have evolved in CBR research as revealed by the implicit and explicit relationships between the conference papers. We have examined a ...
We have developed a prototype virtual reality based balance training system using a single inertial orientation sensor attached to the upper surface of a wobble board. This input device has been interfaced with an open ...
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferences and access patterns recent technologies ...
Collaborative Web search (CWS) is a community-based approach to Web search that supports the sharing of past result selections among a group of related searchers so as to personalize result-lists to reflect the preferences ...
Recent evidence suggests that mobile search is becoming an increasingly important way for mobile users to gain access to online
information, especially as off-portal content continues to grow rapidly. In this paper we ...
Despite the success of modern Web search engines, challenges remain when it comes to providing people with access to the right information at the right time. In this paper, we describe how a novel combination of case-based ...
In this paper we describe the results of a four-week diary study of mobile information needs, focusing on the intent behind mobile needs and the importance on context on such
needs. We identified three key intents among ...
We spend a lot of our time online using web search services, but even the leading search engines frequently fail to deliver relevant results for the vague queries that are commonplace among today’s web searchers. Interestingly, ...
While search engines are the primary means by which information is located online, significant issues remain when trying to satisfy the needs of searchers, especially in the face of the type of vague queries
that dominate ...
Search-engines are among the most used resources on the Internet. Google, for example, now hosts over eight billion items and returns answers to queries in a fraction of a second, thus realising some of the more far-fetched ...