Towards Ambient Search
Stephan Radeck-Arneth, Chris Biemann, Dirk Schnelle-Walka · 2014
Abstract. In ongoing discussions participants tend to pick up their smart phones to retrieve relevant information for clarification, severely hampering the flow of the discussion. We introduce ambient search as a variant of information retrieval where a system unobtrusively provides relevant information snippets in the back-ground without the need to steer devices actively. In this demo paper, we describe a first prototype of our ongoing research activities towards such a system. 1