Darren
Wei Che Huang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva
Interaction with a
mobile device remains difficult because of the inherent physical limitations of
the devices – they are small. This difficulty is particularly evident for
mobile search. If documents were extensively interlinked then fewer searches
might be needed, and browsing might be improved. If these links targeted a best
entry point (BEP) within a document from which the user should start reading
and not the start of the document then scrolling and unnecessary reading of
irrelevant material could also be reduced. We call this a One Search Only
system because the information seeking task could potentially be reduced to a
single search followed by browsing. Automatic link discovery systems might be
used to achieve this extensive interlinking so we propose extensions to the
INEX Link-the-Wiki task to accommodate anchor-to-BEP link discovery and discuss
assessment and evaluation. Finally we propose a mobile user interface and
discuss how to measure its performance, and suggest INEX 2008 adopt this as the
Interactive Track experiment.