Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR'08)
24 July 2008, Singapore

held in conjunction with


The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference

Thanks to everyone for a successful workshop!
Proceedings
are now available for download.


MobIR Workshop Schedule

 

THURSDAY (24 July 2008)

 

Galleria III (L3)

0900-1000

Opening Remarks

Session 1 -- New generation of mobile devices

 

Session Chair: Dr Kap Luk Chan

Invited Talk 1: Cellular Phones as Information Hubs
(Dr Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo)

1000-1030

Morning Tea (Foyer)

1030-1230

Session 2 – Mobile Search


Session Chair: Dr Wang-Chien Lee

Invited Talk 2: To Find or To be Found, That is the Question in Mobile Information Retrieval
(Prof Dik Lun Lee, HKUST )

 

User-centered Solution to Detect Near-Duplicate Pages on Mobile Search Engine

(Shunkai Fu, Bingfeng Pi, Song Han, Jia Guo, Gang Zou, Weilei Wang, Roboo Inc.)

 

Multimodal and Mobile Personal Image Retrieval: A User Study

(Xavier Anguera, Nuria Oliver & Mauro Cherubini, Telefonica Research)

Searching Your Life on Web Maps

(Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Ruochi Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia)

 

1230-1330

Lunch  
(Pontini, Level 2)

1330-1530

Session 3 – Search Technology

 

Session Chair: Flora S. Tsai

Invited Talk 3: Mobile Media Annotation and Sharing: Current Challenges and Future Trends
(Prof Kim-Hui Yap, NTU)


 

Path Query Processing for Moving Objects on Road Networks

(Kyoung-Sook Kim, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki, NICT)

 

Discriminative Feature Selection for Location Based Mobile Information Retrieval

(Yiqun Li, Kart Leong Lim, Joo-Hwee Lim, A*STAR) 

 

Exploratory Histogram-based Regularity Mining for Mobile Internet using K-means Method

(Toshihiko Yamakami, ACCESS Company)

 

1530-1600

Afternoon Tea (Foyer)

1600-1730

Session 4 – Posters and Demonstrations

 

Session Chair: Dr Xing Xie

 Using Web-sources for Location Based Systems on Mobile Phones. (Prototype Description)

(Martijn Pannevis, Maarten Marx, University of Amsterdam)

 

Clustering and Summarizing Medical Documents to Improve Mobile Retrieval

(Manuel de Buenaga, Diego Gachet, Manuel J. Mana, Manuel de la Villa, Jacinto Mata, Universidad Europea de Madrid)

 

Issues in Mobile User Modeling and Search Personalization

(Wolfgang Woerndl, Hubert Kreuzxpointner, Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

 

Efficient Information Seeking on a Mobile Device

(Wei Che (Darren) Huang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology)

 


Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks