Adaptivescreen: an adaptive news browser for laptops and mobile devices

Optimizing interactive information retrieval interfaces is a new trend in IR which focuses more on the interface design and formalizes interactive IR. However, none of existing work has proposed a system to support both adaptive web design and navigational interface, a primary goal of this thesis. We propose the very first browsing system that can adapt to screen size and inferred user need potentially during the process of information retrieval at every interaction. AdaptiveScreen not only presents a user-friendly interface with adaptive web design but also connects with a novel interface card model which formally models the interactive retrieval task. We show that AdaptiveScreen improves upon the prototype system from the perspective of system architecture and system implementations. AdaptiveScreen is redesigned in the manner of classic software architectural pattern Model-View-Controller. By comparing the screen shots and performance between AdaptiveScreen and the prototype system on both laptops and movable devices, we can conclude that AdaptiveScreen successfully leverages the effectiveness of Interface Card Model (ICM) proposed before and overcomes the weakness of prototype system. In the end, we hope the new system can demonstrate the potential applications of algorithms based on ICM and stimulate other researchers in the field of interactive IR.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2017

Author dc:creator

• Sun, Bofan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zhai, ChengXiang

• Interactive information retrieval
• Adaptive web design

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2017 Bofan Sun

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/98304

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/98304