A collaborative Web browsing system for multiple mobile users

Author

Maekawa, Takuya ; Hara, Takahiro ; Nishio, Shojiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Osaka Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

35

Abstract

In mobile computing environments, handheld devices with low functionality restrict the services provided for mobile users. We propose a new concept of collaborative browsing, where mobile users collaboratively browse Web pages designed for desktop PC. In collaborative browsing, a Web page is divided into multiple components, and each is distributed to a different device. In mobile computing environments, the number of handheld devices, their capabilities, and other conditions can vary widely amongst mobile users who want to browse content. Therefore, we developed a page partitioning method for collaborative browsing, which divides a Web page into multiple components. Moreover, we designed and implemented a collaborative Web browsing system in which users can search and browse their target information by discussing and watching partial pages displayed on multiple devices

Keywords

Internet; mobile computing; notebook computers; online front-ends; Web page; collaborative Web browsing system; handheld devices; mobile computing environment; mobile user; page partitioning method; Cellular phones; Collaboration; Displays; Handheld computers; Information science; Mobile computing; Personal communication networks; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2006. PerCom 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2518-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOM.2006.1

Filename

1604789