Restructuring and presentation of results by a search engine in mobile environment

摘要

Recently, much attention bas been focused on the realization of several Web information services in mobile phone environments. In the mobile phone environments, both of the opportunities of user interactions and the display area are restricted. This leads to the difficulty of using conventional search engines, and so, many application services are depending on specific built-in search systems. Also, a vast volume of research results are usually obtained by conventional search engines. We believe that the passive viewing of search results will be appropritae because of the narrowness of the display area and the data size of search results. In this paper, we propose a system railed WebCarrousel in which research results are organized into several carrousels and each carrousel of Web pages are displayed continuously. By using speech synthesis technology, the search results are presented like as a TV program, which facilitates a passive viewing of search results. Furthermore, for each Web page, the system automatically computes sets of more-detailed, more-abstracted, and similar pages, respectively, and reorganize them as carrousels. Users can navigate among carrousels by simple interaction during passive viewing.