Title
SmartView and SearchMobil: Providing Overview and Detail in Handheld Browsing
Abstract
Handheld devices, like PDAs and mobile phones, are increasingly used to access information on the Web. However, because most Web pages are designed for desktop PC screens whereas these devices have small screens, only a small region of a page is visible at a time. Reading and finding information is therefore difficult and requires extensive amount of scrolling, both horizontally and vertically. One way to address this problem is an overview plus detail approach to the design. We describe SearchMobil, a working system that supports the user in viewing and searching the Web with a PDA. It is based on our SmartView technology that performs content and layout analysis of Web pages and thus provides foundations for SearchMobil features. We present the results of a user study that shows the utility of the SearchMobil approach and provides further insight in challenges and opportunities that the mobile Web presents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_12
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile web,handheld device,web pages
Web page,Computer science,Web modeling,Mobile device,Web navigation,Scrolling,Mobile Web,Mobile phone,Web service,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2954
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Natasa Milic-Frayling191775.24
Ralph Sommerer2677.01
Kerry Rodden369472.11
Alan F. Blackwell42042177.34