Supporting mobile access to digital video archives without user queries

In this paper we present a technique for supporting mobile access to digital video archives without requiring explicit user queries. The idea is to infer the interests and needs of users from their WWW browsing history and represent those needs as persistent queries to the archive. An experiment, which we present here, suggests that this technique is effective for recommending video content to users on mobile devices. We also describe how to apply these findings to a mobile interface for a digital video archive.