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MHCI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Incidental information and mobile search
There is much interest in providing effective mobile search tools. Our focus is the value of in situ sharing of users’ mobile search activity. The QnotA prototype displays other...
David Arter, George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Richard ...
ACNS
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Privacy Preserving Keyword Searches on Remote Encrypted Data
We consider the following problem: a user U wants to store his files in an encrypted form on a remote file server S. Later the user U wants to efficiently retrieve some of the en...
Yan-Cheng Chang, Michael Mitzenmacher
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Computers and iphones and mobile phones, oh my!: a logs-based comparison of search users on different devices
We present a logs-based comparison of search patterns across three platforms: computers, iPhones and conventional mobile phones. Our goal is to understand how mobile search users ...
Maryam Kamvar, Melanie Kellar, Rajan Patel, Ya Xu
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, Akihito Tokuda
P2P
2002
IEEE
112views Communications» more  P2P 2002»
14 years 16 days ago
A Distributed Search Service for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing in Mobile Applications
In this paper, we present the concept of Passive Distributed Indexing, a general-purpose distributed search service for mobile file sharing applications, which is based on peer-to...
Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Waldhorst