Mixed-Initiative News Video Recommendations and Browsing for Mobile Devices

The emergence of networked mobile computing devices creates many opportunities for consumption of multimedia content on the move. However, such mobile devices have inherent resource constraints: low network bandwidth, small screen size, limited input methods and low commitment viewing. To facilitate access to news video on mobile devices, a prototype system has been implemented on a HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) mobile phone at 320x240 resolution, demonstrating an ``adaptive TV-channel'' like mixed-initiative interface used solicit user relevance feedback. Combined with network prefetching, a cognitively palatable stream of videos and a seamless lower-latency user experience is created.