Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
FaThumb: a facet-based interface for mobile search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Questions not answers: a novel mobile search technique
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The effects of explicit referencing in distance problem solving over shared maps
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Mobile findex: supporting mobile web search with automatic result categories
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Incidental information and mobile search
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Representing location in location-based social awareness systems
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
SocialSearchBrowser: a novel mobile search and information discovery tool
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Opportunities exist: continuous discovery of places to perform activities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
'Natural' search user interfaces
Communications of the ACM
Comparative evaluation of interfaces for presenting location-based information on mobile devices
ICADL'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Asia-pacific digital libraries: for cultural heritage, knowledge dissemination, and future creation
Drawing the city: differing perceptions of the urban environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Entertainment on the go: finding things to do and see while visiting distributed events
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
An architecture for surroundings discovery by linking 3D models and LOD cloud
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems
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As the mobile Internet continues to grow, there is an increasing need to provide users with effective search and information access services. In order to build more effective mobile search services, we must first understand the impact that various interface choices have on mobile users. For example, the majority of mobile location-based search services are built on top of a map visualization, but is this intuitive design-decision the optimal interface choice from a human centric perspective? In order to tackle this fundamental design question, we have developed two proactive mobile search interfaces (one map-based and the other text-based) that utilize key mobile contexts to improve the search and information discovery experience of mobile users. In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory field study of these two interfaces - involving 34 users over a 1 month period - where we focus in particular on the impact that the type of user interface (e.g. map vs text) has on the search and information discovery experience of mobile users. We highlight the main usage results - including that maps are not the interface of choice for certain information access tasks - and outline key implications for the design of next generation mobile search services.