Who, what, where & when
Karen Church, Barry Smyth · 2008
Mobile devices and the mobile Internet represent an extremely challenging search environment. Limited screenspace, restricted text-input and interactivity, and impatient users all conspire to exacerbate the shortcomings of modern Web search. Recently researchers have proposed that typically vague search queries be augmented by context information, as a way to help search engines to retrieve more relevant information. In this paper we propose a novel interface to support multi-dimensional, context-sensitive mobile search, combining context features such as location, time, and community preferences to offer a unique search experience that is well-adapted to the needs of mobile users.