Week 9 November 2. Universal Access

1. ACM MM/MIR see notes

2. mobile env scan:

3. The problem of metadata and surrogation

Faceted web design (discuss the facet study running fall 06)

approaches to metadata discovery

machine learning, clustering: Discuss Efron et al. [slides on text mining tool kit]

knowledge based heuristics

human indexing

social tagging  (can you imagine better UIs?)  Can we tag with media?

The Interface Server concept:

Server side installs---client side installs

Proxy servers

4. Universal access.  Can we finesse I/O?