Summarization Search: A New Search Abstraction for Mobile Devices

Summarization Search: A New Search Abstraction for Mobile Devices, Chakraborty, S., Jabbar, Z., & Subramanian, L. (2015, December). In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 69-70. ACM.

Mobile users in developing regions are known to have a relatively poor web experience due to three fundamentally limiting factors: limited network bandwidth, high cost of connectivity and high latency…In this paper, we propose summarization search as a new search abstraction for mobile users in developing regions built around the goal of minimizing the need for interaction and exploration involved in a standard web task.

Read full article