Document-centric browsers at Fribourg

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Document-centric browsers at Fribourg
Inquisitor
JFriDoc
FaericWorld
1 media
1 event
Cross-events
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JFriDoc
Remote control
Distribution of spoken documents and
utterances speakers wise
Submit queries (OR AND)
Transcript
Documents panel
Scrollbar showing queries results
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User evaluation
Goal Test usefulness of static documents for
interacting with multimedia data
B1 Standard browser
Protocol 8 user answer 8 questions, using 2
browsers
B2 Document only
B2 Transcript only
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Results
CORRECT ANSWERS (Average on 8 users scores)
B1 Standard JFriDoc B2 Document only B3
Transcript only
Browser B1 was always tested first (less
training) Users feedbacks and results show that
uni-modal document questions were wrongly
designed, because too complex. These questions
have been successfully answered only using the
multimodal browser B1.
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FaericWorld

• Cross-meetings browser for a world of linked
  documents
• 22 meetings of Fribourg
• Currently, we are integrating the 171 meetings of
  MMM
• World centered on (static) documents
• Link-based systems for navigating, editing and
  validating the world

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Faeric Main View
Keyword (attractor)
link
Query
Filters for types of document
(Part of) document preview
Similarity threshold
Tracking of the user
Document
Part of document
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Browsing the meetings world

1. Submit a query and visualize the results
2. Discover new documents by alignment, clicking the
   ones of interest.
3. Filter documents to reduce results set
4. Play meetings (or consult other documents)