Paper Info
Title
Exploring Cross-Device Web Use on PCs and Mobile Devices
Abstract
In this paper, we explore whether sharing a user's web browsing activity across their computing devices can make it easier to find and access web sites on a mobile device. We first surveyed 175 smartphone users about their web use across multiple devices. We found that users shared web information between devices, but generally used cumbersome manual methods to do so. In a second study, we tracked the web sites visited by 14 participants on their PC and mobile phone, and used experience-sampling surveys to determine whether sharing sites across devices would be useful. We found that participants visited many of the same sites on both their mobile device and PC, and that participants were interested in viewing additional sites from their PC on their mobile device. Our results suggest that automatically sharing web activity information between devices has potential to improve the usability of the mobile web.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_79
INTERACT (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple device,web use,access web site,web site,mobile device,mobile phone,web activity information,web information,mobile devices,computing device,mobile web,exploring cross-device web use,experience sampling method,web browsing,user experience,sample survey,sampling methods
Web development,Web Accessibility Initiative,Mobile technology,Mobile search,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web navigation,Mobile Web,Web service,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5726
0302-9743
28
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.40
18
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaun Kane1143792.67
Amy K. Karlson2102748.44
Brian R. Meyers315310.96
Paul Johns436126.16
Andy Jacobs529841.83
Greg Smith641119.46