The Concept of Relevance in Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access

Coppola, Paolo; Mea, Vincenzo Della; Gaspero, Luca Di; Mizzaro, Stefano

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_1

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“…A first remark is that, in our opinion, there are two reasons to prefer the term 'activity' to 'task', which is the term used by Mizzaro (1998) and Coppola et al (2004) to name the corresponding component in their frameworks (and/or to the term 'work-task situation' used by other authors, e.g., Borlund, and Schneider, 2010). First, 'activity' is more general term referring to "something which a person or group choose to do", whereas 'task' is commonly used to define a short objective-driven action, or "a piece of work to be done" (Oxford English Dictionary).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mizzaro's framework was further developed by Coppola et al (2004) to define w-relevance, i.e., a notion of relevance adequate for the mobile world. The authors use the 'w' to refer to wireless relevance, but also double-relevance, world-relevance, and double-user-relevance (Coppola et al, 2004, p. 7).…”

Section: Coppola Et Al's Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other important changes to the original framework of Mizzaro (1998) applied by Coppola et al (2004) concern the increased importance of physical world aspects, like time (third dimension) and location and other contextual aspects (fourth dimension). Indeed, the new framework seems more adequate to the mobile use case than the previous one; however, in our opinion, the framework can still be improved and generalized in several respects, as described in the following.…”

Section: Coppola Et Al's Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We discuss each of them in more detail in the following four subsections. Coppola et al (2004) added to the first dimension the new level of abstraction 'thing', and took into account the case of a document (e.g., a museum web page) referring to a thing (the real museum). However, they did not explicitly remark that, besides the document, the surrogate as well can refer directly to a thing, rather than refer to a document that then refers to a thing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Almost a decade ago, Coppola et al (2004) depicted what at the time was the raising mobile revolution, and its consequences in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). Mobile devices became ubiquitous, flooding our lives with a continuous stream of information, when the advent of social networks was still out of sight.…”

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Recent advances in mobile technologies led to new spatially-and context-aware definitions of relevance. In this paper, we aim to develop the conceptual framework suggested by Mizzaro (1998) further, in order to improve the characterization and classification of current and future concepts of relevance. We formalise two new dimension of relevance. The first dimension emphasizes the spatio-temporal nature of the information seeking process. The second dimension is necessary to describe how different concepts of relevance rely on different abstractions of reality.

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In the age of mobile commerce, users receive floods of commercial messages. How do users judge the relevance of such information? Is their relevance judgment affected by contextual factors, such as location and time? How do message content and contextual factors affect users' privacy concerns? With a focus on mobile ads, we propose a research model based on theories of relevance judgment and mobile marketing research. We suggest topicality, reliability, and economic value as key content factors and location and time as key contextual factors. We found mobile relevance judgment is affected mainly by content factors, whereas privacy concerns are affected by both content and contextual factors. Moreover, topicality and economic value have a synergetic effect that makes a message more relevant. Higher topicality and location precision exacerbate privacy concerns, whereas message reliability alleviates privacy concerns caused by location precision. These findings reveal an interesting intricacy in user relevance judgment and privacy concerns and provide nuanced guidance for the design and delivery of mobile commercial information.privacy concerns, and (c) the relationship between MCI relevance and privacy concerns. These findings not only help to enrich the understanding of relevance judgment in mobile and commercial settings but also provide practitioners nuanced guidance on how to effectively design and deliver such information.The article is organized as follows: We first review theories on information relevance, privacy concerns, and mobile marketing. Then we propose our research model and hypotheses. We then report on research methods and data analysis. Finally, we discuss the implications and limitations of this study. Literature Review Relevance JudgmentRelevance is defined as a subjective and contextual judgment of information. Early work by Saracevic (1996) recognized relevance as a subjective perception of information by a user. A major component of relevance judgment, topicality perception of information, is defined as a user's subjective judgment of the degree to which a piece of information is related to a user's subject of interest rather than the satisfaction of mechanical criteria such as those implemented by search engines. Borlund (2003) classified relevance into two main categories: objective or system-based relevance, and subjective or human (user)based relevance. However, Hjørland (2010) contended that relevance is never "a system's" but always "a human's." As with the previous literature, this study takes a subjective view of MCI relevance.What would affect relevance judgments? Past research has pointed out that relevance judgments are complex and involve intertwined factors (to suggest a general model of relevance clues. Maglaughlin and Sonnenwald (2002) identified 29 criteria in six categories. Toms, O'Brien, Kopak, and Freund (2005) derived a set of measures for cognitive, motivational, situational, topical, and system relevance. Based on Grice's theory of human communication (Grice, 1975(Gric...

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The Concept of Relevance in Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Geographic dimensions of relevance

Geographic dimensions of relevance

Geographic information science

Relevance judgments of mobile commercial information

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