Abstract

Mobile devices and the mobile Internet represent an ex-tremely challenging search environment. Limited screen-space, restricted text-input and interactivity, and impatient users all conspire to exacerbate the shortcomings of mod-ern Web search. Recently researchers have proposed that typically vague search queries be augmented by context in-formation, as a way to help search engines to retrieve more relevant information. In this paper we propose a novel inter-face to support multi-dimensional, context-sensitive mobile search, combining context features such as location, time, and community preferences to offer a unique search experi-ence that is well-adapted to the needs of mobile users.