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Exploring Urban Events with Transitory Search on Mobiles

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Per M. Nielsen,

Jeni Paay,

Jon Pearce,

Jesper KjeldskovAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

Pages 712 - 719

https://doi.org/10.1145/2786567.2793692

Published: 24 August 2015 Publication History

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Searching for unknown urban events in the hope of making serendipitous discoveries has been the focus of multiple mobile tourist guide and recommender systems. This study investigates how transitory search can be used as an interaction mechanism for making such discoveries on a mobile phone. Our prototype, onMelbourne, returns a changing collection of urban events within physical and temporal proximity based on the setting and adjustment of search sliders by the user. Laboratory tests with 5 participants show that users understand transitory search for urban events and do make serendipitous discoveries. In addition we found that users fear missing out on events not shown by the system, and that the choice of labels on sliders impacts their understanding of a slider set halfway. The contribution of the paper is a better understanding of how transitory search can facilitate explorative behaviour when browsing for urban events on mobiles.

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MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

August 2015

697 pages

ISBN:9781450336536

DOI:10.1145/2786567

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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of Ulm, Germany
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Lancaster University, UK
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Microsoft Research Redmond, USA

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