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Content comparison functions for mobile co-located collaborative web search

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Due to the recent popularization of mobile devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs, most people have their own mobile devices in Japan. In this situation, a user can search the Web not only by himself, but together with his friends and families, which aims to find information that meets requirements from all of them. In such collaborative search, users first search the Web separately and collect contents of interest, and then, share the contents with others by showing a screen with each other. However, because mobile devices generally have a small screen, this process is burdensome for users. In this paper, to solve this problem, we propose an interface to support users engaged in collaborative search to share and compare their collected contents. The proposed interface provides functionalities to effectively share contents collected by all members and to add reviews in order to make content search and comparison easier.

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  2. Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA): http://www.tca.or.jp/database.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Dr. Shigeyuki Akiba, President & CEO of KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. for his continuous support for this study. This research was partially supported by The Global Center of Excellence Program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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  1. Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

    Daijiro Komaki, Azusa Oku, Takahiro Hara & Shojiro Nishio

  2. Microsoft Research Asia, Building 2, No. 5 Dan Ling Street, Haidian District, 100080, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Yuki Arase

  3. KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc, 2-1-15 Ohara, Fujimino, Saitama, Japan

    Toshiaki Uemukai & Gen Hattori

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Komaki, D., Oku, A., Arase, Y. et al. Content comparison functions for mobile co-located collaborative web search. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 2, 239–248 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-011-0060-4

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