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10 November 2016: Kazutoshi Sumiya & Maho Nishizawa: Less-Conscious Information Retrieval Techniques for Location Based Services

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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The Birkbeck Institute of Data Analytics (BIDA) and the Geo-Analytics and Modelling Group (GAM) present Less-Conscious Information Retrieval Techniques for Location Based Services, by Prof. Kazutoshi Sumiya & Maho Nishizawa, Dept of Applied Informatics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.

Date: 10th November 2016

Abstract

We have developed methods which can deal with the users' interaction without conventional conscious searching. When a user generally performs map operations with information retrieval intentions (less-conscious), a system using our method can detect the specific operation sequences. For example, if the user performs zooming-in and centering operations, the user is narrowing down the search area to a certain location. We define such operation sequences as chunks. The system detects the chunks and uses them to analyze the user's operations and thereby detect the user's intentions. We have developed several prototype systems based on the proposed methods.

Biography

Kazutoshi Sumiya received his BE and ME degrees in instrumentation engineering from Kobe University in 1986 and 1988, respectively. Then he joined Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co). He received his Ph.D in Information media from Kobe University in 1998. He left the company and became a lecturer at Kobe University in 1999, and then was promoted to an associate professor in 2000. He became an associate professor in 2001 at Kyoto University, a professor at the University of Hyogo in 2004 and a professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2015. He developed information dissemination systems and fusion technique for broadcast media and network media. He is developing next-generation information techniques. He was a chair of Database System special interest group (DBS) in the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and a co-editor of IPSJ Transaction on Database. He is a director of IPSJ.

Attendees

Prof. Kazutoshi Sumiya & Maho Nishizawa
Dept of Applied Informatics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.

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