Organizing Multimedia Resources for Mobile Learners

Retrieving web information and tailor it to fit users' needs is a challenge for information retrieval systems. Most of web search engines display information resulting from searches regardless of the user's real needs, interests, or context. This is an important weakness specifically for mobile users who expect that the results are be adapted to the context. In general, web users spend time in dealing with the thousands of results retrieved by web search engines and they need most of the time to resubmit queries to refine the search. This research is intended to fulfill this gap, that is, to develop a mobile system that displays multimedia information retrieved from the web through an intelligent Graphical User Interface (GUI) that senses intelligently the user needs and adapts the content displayed to the user context. These GUIs provide users with the right information, at the right time, in the right location, for the right task.