Semedia Overview

Group Interface (UG)

Overview

Group Interface is an attempt to over come many of the problems associated with video search. We present a novel video retrieval system that allows users to create semantic groups to help conceptualise and organise their results for complex video search tasks. The interface allows users to organise their results into semantic groups and to share results between multiple groups, these groups can be used to launch new searches thus allowing users to view multiple result sets simultaneously.

Features

There are a number of facilities in the Group Interface that enable the user to both search and organise results effectively.

• • Users form semantic groups
• • Users use drag and drop techniques to add videos to group
• • Videos can be members of more than one group
• • Groups can be used to launch new searches
• • Users can create a potentially infinite number of groups
• • Collaborative recommendations based on user interactions

There are a number of potential advantages of using the Group Interface

• • Interactive grouping is a flexible means to communicate numerous information needs
• • The semantic gap is narrowed by the abstraction to high-level semantic groupings as opposed to having
• users focus on the task in hand
• • The user leaves trails of their actions behind that not only the system can exploit for adaptation but also
• that other people can trace

Demonstration

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Group Interface

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