FIRE: An Information Retrieval Interface Fo rI ntelligent Environments
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Ajay Kulkrani · 2001
Searching for relevant information on the world- wide web is often a difficult and frustrating task. The infor- mation one is looking for, is hidden among thousands of docu- ments returned by a search engine. One way of making search for relevant information easier, is to create better interfaces to th es earch engines; interfaces that facilitate quick and efficient browsing through the multitude of returned documents. In this paper, we present FIRE - a multimodal interface for informa- tion retrieval deployed in the Intelligent Room at the MIT AI Lab. FIRE differs from most othe ri nterfaces forinformation retrieval in that it combines a couple of interaction modalities to improve the search process.