A Web Platform to Generate and Deliver Mobile Web Contents Without Programming Skills

Author(s):  
David Martín ◽  
Ortzi Torices ◽  
Hugo Salas ◽  
Carlos Lamsfus ◽  
Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal

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.


Author(s):  
Penelope Ioannidou ◽  
Panagiotis Katrakazas ◽  
Stefanos Kollias ◽  
Michail Sarafidis ◽  
Dimitrios Koutsouris

Author(s):  
Anna Kress ◽  
David Linner ◽  
Stephan Steglich

As a new platform for mobile applications the “Mobile Web” has recently gained importance. However, the Web as an application platform presents a number of limits to the application developer when compared to other application platforms, e.g. limited access to the local functionality of the mobile device. Those limits can be addressed through so-called “hybrid” application platforms which combine the best from the worlds of Web applications and locally installed applications. We believe that such hybrid applications will gain a significant market share in the nearby future. In this chapter we reflect the current state of those hybrid application platforms and analyze their advantages: After deriving general requirements for future mobile application platforms, we discuss the promises and limits of the Mobile Web platform and describe recent activities of public bodies addressing the discussed limits through “hybrid” extensions. Finally, we discuss the FOKUS Mobile Widget Runtime as a prototype for a hybrid application platform, and propose future research directions in this field.


2015 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Theobald ◽  
Shiv Gaglani ◽  
M. Ryan Haynes

Author(s):  
Isabel Araújo ◽  
Pedro Miguel Faria

From an early age, young people use mobile devices and are known as a “native digital generation,” who constantly access information through mobile devices. Thus, educational practices are not indifferent to this reality. Consequently, several online platforms supporting the teaching-learning process have been developed. Additionally, several higher education institutions have a weekly attendance time, where teachers seek to clarify student's doubts physically in the institution. However, oftentimes, the students do not use that attendance time. In order to seek to improve this issue, a collaborative mobile web platform was developed: Higher M@t-EduTutor. This chapter starts by introducing a theoretical framework and then presents a broad study on collaborative web platforms in order to better relate them with the developed platform. This specific platform, to be used in mobile devices, with the objective of promoting students learning, allows students to clarify doubts with their teachers, collaboratively, in real time and at distance.


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