RBIR

Reality-Based Information Retrieval

In this project, my colleagues and I explored the concept of Reality-Based Information Retrieval, which combines the classic information retrieval process with augmented-reality technologies to provide context-dependent search cues and situated visualizations of the query and the results.

Information needs are often triggered by specific real-world experiences. Therefore, this novel combination has the potential to better support both just-in-time information retrieval and serendipity.

The official video gives a short overview of the project.
The proposed RBIR pipeline.
Left: Concept of users getting situated just-in-time information about groceries. Right: Prototype implementation of this use case for AR HMDs.

For more details about RBIR, please take a look at the main project website! Additionally, if you would like to cite RBIR in your research, please cite our MobileHCI ‘18 paper.

References

2018

  1. RBIRDemo2018.jpg
    Demonstrating Reality-Based Information Retrieval
    Wolfgang Büschel, Annett Mitschick, and Raimund Dachselt
    In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2018
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    Here and Now: Reality-based Information Retrieval
    Wolfgang Büschel, Annett Mitschick, and Raimund Dachselt
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Mar 2018