Web searching for daily living

  • Authors:
  • Takuya Maekawa;Yutaka Yanagisawa;Yasushi Sakurai;Yasue Kishino;Koji Kamei;Takeshi Okadome

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT, Kyoto, Japan;NTT, Kyoto, Japan;NTT, Kyoto, Japan;NTT, Kyoto, Japan;NTT, Kyoto, Japan;NTT, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The new concept proposed in this paper is a query free web search that automatically retrieves a web page including information related to the daily activity that we are currently engaged in for automatically displaying the page on Internet-connected domestic appliances around us such as televisions. When we are washing a coffee maker, for example, a web page is retrieved that includes tips such as `cleaning a coffee maker with vinegar removes stains well.' A method designed on the basis of this concept automatically searches for a web page by using a query constructed from the use of ordinary household objects that is detected by sensors attached to the objects. An in-situ experiment tests a variety of IR techniques and the experiment confirmed that our daily activities can produce related web pages with high accuracy.