Title :
Web browsing on small-screen devices: a multiclient collaborative approach
Author :
Hua, Zhigang ; Lu, Hanqing
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Autom., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A new multiclient collaborative system helps improve Web browsing on small-screen devices. Its two-level browsing scheme can comprehensively enhance mobile users´ Web experiences. We propose a multiclient collaborative system that extends one device´s display by uniting multiple displays on different clients. As our user study demonstrates, our system can overcome various small-screen Web browsing difficulties by offering a two-level browsing scheme-one for within-page browsing and the other for between-page comparative browsing.
Keywords :
Internet; groupware; mobile computing; mobile radio; online front-ends; Web browsing; between-page comparative browsing; mobile computing; multiclient collaborative system; small-screen devices; within-page browsing; Bandwidth; Cellular phones; Collaboration; Computer displays; Data mining; Hardware; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Switches; Web pages; Pervasive computing environment; Web browsing; ambient intelligence; multiclient collaboration;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2006.42
