Web searching for daily living

The new concept proposed in this paper is a query free web search that automatically retrieves a web page including information related to the daily activity that we are currently engaged in for automatically displaying the page on Internet-connected domestic appliances around us such as televisions. When we are washing a coffee maker, for example, a web page is retrieved that includes tips such as ‘cleaning a coffee maker with vinegar removes stains well.’ A method designed on the basis of this concept automatically searches for a web page by using a query constructed from the use of ordinary household objects that is detected by sensors attached to the objects. An in-situ experiment tests a variety of IR techniques and the experiment confirmed that our daily activities can produce related web pages with high accuracy. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval. General Terms: Algorithms, Experimentation

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Takuya Maekawa, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Yasushi Sakurai, Yasue Kishino, Koji Kamei, Takeshi Okadome
• Keywords: Coffee Maker, Information Retrieval, Query Free Web, SIGIR 2009, Web Pages