Enhancing Mobile Web Pages for Smartphone Browsers

2009 ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Gail Rahn Frederick ◽  
Rajesh Lal
Keyword(s):  
Web Pages ◽  
Mobile Web

Annotation and Auto-Scrolling for Web Page Overview in Mobile Web Browsing

2012 ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Yuki Arase ◽  
Takahiro Hara ◽  
Toshiaki Uemukai ◽  
Shojiro Nishio
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Browsing ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Effective Technique ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
User Experiment

Due to advances in mobile phones, mobile Web browsing has become increasingly popular. In this regard, small screens and poor input capabilities of mobile phones prevent users from comfortably browsing Web pages that are designed for desktop PCs. One of the serious problems of mobile Web browsing is that users often get lost in a Web page and can only view a small portion of a Web page at a time, not able to grasp the entire page’s structure to decide which direction their information of interest is located. To solve this problem, an effective technique is to present an overview of the page. Although prior studies adopted the conventional style of overview, that is, a scaled-down image of the page, this is not sufficient because users cannot see details of the contents. Therefore, in this paper, the authors present annotations on a Web page that provides a functionality which automatically scrolls the page. Results of a user experiment show that annotations are informative for users who want to find contents from a large Web page.

Content-Determined Web Page Segmentation and Navigation for Mobile Web Searching

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-108
Keyword(s):  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Searching ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Page Segmentation ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Desktop Computers ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Web Contents ◽  
Music Player

Nowadays the usage of mobile phones is widely spread in our lifestyle; we use cell phones as a camera, a radio, a music player, and even as a web browser. Since most web pages are created for desktop computers, navigating through web pages is highly fatigued. Hence, there is a great interest in computer science to adopt such pages with rich content into small screens of our mobile devices. On the other hand, every web page has got many different parts that do not have the equal importance to the end user. Consequently, the authors propose a mechanism to identify the most useful part of a web page to a user regarding his or her search query while the information loss is avoided. The challenge here comes from the fact that long web contents cannot be easily displayed in both vertical and horizontal ways.

scholarly journals Diseño de páginas web educativas para teléfonos móviles

2010 ◽  
pp. a132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Brazuelo Grund ◽  
Maria Luz Cacheiro González
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
The Web

Presentamos a continuación un trabajo de investigación acerca del diseño de páginas web para teléfonos móviles en el ámbito educativo. En el marco teórico, estudiaremos la situación actual de la telefonía móvil como recurso educativo. A continuación estableceremos un marco de actuación metodológica basado en herramientas de la Web 2.0, llegando finalmente a la creación de la web móvil Diseño de Páginas Web en Contextos Educativos, perteneciente al programa de doctorado MODELTIC de la UNED.AbstractWe are presenting a research paper about designing web pages for mobile phones in an educational context. In the theoretical framework, we will study the current situation of mobile telephony as an educational resource. Then we will establish a framework of methodological approach based on the tools of the Web 2.0, finally arriving to the creation of mobile Web 'Diseño de Páginas Web en Contextos Educativos,' as part of the doctoral program at UNED MODELTIC.

Technologies and Systems for Web Content Adaptation

2010 ◽  
pp. 263-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Chen Hu ◽  
Naima Kaabouch ◽  
Hung-Jen Yang ◽  
Weihong Hu
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Page Segmentation ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Notebook Computers ◽  
Arduous Task

The world has witnessed the blossom of mobile commerce in the past few years. Traditional Web pages are mainly designed for desktop or notebook computers. They usually do not suit the devices well because the pages, especially the large files, cannot be properly, speedily displayed on the microbrowsers due to the limitations of mobile handheld devices: (i) small screen size, (ii) narrow network bandwidth, (iii) low memory capacity, and (iv) limited computing power and resources. Therefore, loading and visualizing large documents on handheld devices become an arduous task. Various methods are created for browsing the mobile Web efficiently and effectively. This chapter investigates some of the methods: (i) page segmentation, (ii) component ranking, and (iii) other ad hoc methods. Though each method employs a different strategy, their goals are the same: conveying the meaning of Web pages by using minimum space. The major problem of the current methods is that it is not easy to find the clear-cut components in a Web page. Other related issues such as mobile handheld devices and microbrowsers will also be discussed in this chapter.

Automatic Usability Evaluation of Mobile Web Pages with XML

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankita Kohli ◽  
Chunying Zhao ◽  
Jun Kong
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Xml Schema ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Mobile Design ◽  
Mobile Browsing

Recently, mobile browsing on the World Wide Web is growing rapidly. The growth has created a surge in the number of Web pages designed for mobile devices. To increase the usability of mobile browsing, the Mobile Web Best Practices have been proposed to guide the development of mobile-friendly Web pages. In this paper, the mobileOK checker, a free service provided by W3C, is used to automatically inspect the conformance of 46 popular mobile Web sites to the Mobile Web Best Practices. We analyze the evaluation results and provide suggestions for improving the design of mobile Web sites. In mobile browsing, different mobile devices have different screen sizes, layout structures, and styles to represent Web contents. Furthermore, mobile devices are developing fast. The diversity and fast development of mobile devices cause the mobile design guidelines changing over time. However, the mobileOK checker is not flexible to include new guidelines or customize a best practice rule to fit a specific mobile browsing scenario. To solve this problem, this paper presents a generic approach to represent the mobile design guidelines through an XML schema. Using the XML schema provides the flexibly to support evolving guidelines in an open format. To evaluate our approach, a prototype, WPChecker, has been developed.

Web Page Adaptation and Presentation for Mobile Phones

2010 ◽  
pp. 240-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Arase ◽  
Takahiro Hara ◽  
Shojiro Nishio
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Browsing ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Large Displays ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
The Web

According to the explosive growth of mobile phones, mobile Web has been a part of our life. People can access the Web with their mobile phones and obtain information anywhere and anytime. This trend will stimulate the coming of mobile commerce, where people look for and purchase products on the Web whenever they want. Mobile Web is one of the key technologies for mobile commerce. However, since mobile phones have to be handheld, their interface is strictly limited. Users have to browse large-sized Web pages designed for large displays with a small screen and poor input capability of mobile phones. Additionally, considering mobile users browse Web pages in various situations, users’ needs towards presentation functionalities may different depending on their browsing situations. To provide comfortable Web browsing experience under these constraints, we have proposed two systems for mobile phone users. One system provides various presentation functions for Web browsing so that users can select appropriate ones based on their browsing situations. The other system provides functions to navigate users within a Web page so that they can find the information of their interest without getting lost in the page. In this chapter, we briefly introduce designs of these systems and introduce results of user experiments, through which we show that our systems can reduce users’ burden on mobile Web by enabling to select appropriate presentation functions adapted to their situations and by navigating them on a large Web page with the entertaining interface.

scholarly journals Performance Optimization for Mobile Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5032-5037
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Performance Issues ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Future Reference

Abstract Most of the existing web pages have poor visibility, high bounce rates, and low conversion rates due to performance issues on mobile devices. The aim of this research work is to develop a framework which optimizes the performance of mobile web. The primary technology used in the framework is Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). The proposed framework converts a non-AMP web page into an AMP compliant web page, with additional feature of internationalization, and caches it on cloud for future reference. The proposed framework is tested on various content rich sites and performance of converted AMP pages is com- pared with original pages based on various parameters likes first meaningful paint, first interactive, etc.

Annotation and Auto-Scrolling for Web Page Overview in Mobile Web Browsing

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Yuki Arase ◽  
Takahiro Hara ◽  
Toshiaki Uemukai ◽  
Shojiro Nishio
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Browsing ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Effective Technique ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
User Experiment

Due to advances in mobile phones, mobile Web browsing has become increasingly popular. In this regard, small screens and poor input capabilities of mobile phones prevent users from comfortably browsing Web pages that are designed for desktop PCs. One of the serious problems of mobile Web browsing is that users often get lost in a Web page and can only view a small portion of a Web page at a time, not able to grasp the entire page’s structure to decide which direction their information of interest is located. To solve this problem, an effective technique is to present an overview of the page. Although prior studies adopted the conventional style of overview, that is, a scaled-down image of the page, this is not sufficient because users cannot see details of the contents. Therefore, in this paper, the authors present annotations on a Web page that provides a functionality which automatically scrolls the page. Results of a user experiment show that annotations are informative for users who want to find contents from a large Web page.

scholarly journals A Comparative Measurement Study of Web Tracking on Mobile and Desktop Environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiju Yang ◽  
Chuan Yue
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Device ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Comparative Measurement ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Measurement Study ◽  
Powerful Approach ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Web ◽  
Tracking Measurement

AbstractWeb measurement is a powerful approach to studying various tracking practices that may compromise the privacy of millions of users. Researchers have built several measurement frameworks and performed a few studies to measure web tracking on the desktop environment. However, little is known about web tracking on the mobile environment, and no tool is readily available for performing a comparative measurement study on mobile and desktop environments. In this work, we built a framework called WTPatrol that allows us and other researchers to perform web tracking measurement on both mobile and desktop environments. Using WTPatrol, we performed the first comparative measurement study of web tracking on 23,310 websites that have both mobile version and desktop version web-pages. We conducted an in-depth comparison of the web tracking practices of those websites between mobile and desktop environments from two perspectives: web tracking based on JavaScript APIs and web tracking based on HTTP cookies. Overall, we found that mobile web tracking has its unique characteristics especially due to mobile-specific trackers, and it has become increasingly as prevalent as desktop web tracking. However, the potential impact of mobile web tracking is more severe than that of desktop web tracking because a user may use a mobile device frequently in different places and be continuously tracked. We further gave some suggestions to web users, developers, and researchers to defend against web tracking.

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