Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
According to cognitive science literature, human memory is predicated on contextual cues (e.g., room, music) in the environment. During recall tasks, we associate information/acti...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Andrew Warr,...
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
Almost all system and application design for multimedia systems is based around a single user working in isolation to perform some task yet much of the work for which we use comput...
Alan F. Smeaton, Hyowon Lee, Colum Foley, Sin&eacu...