Power browser: efficient Web browsing for PDAs

By Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2000

311 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We have designed and implemented new Web browsing facilities to support effective navigation on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with limited capabilities: low bandwidth, small display, and slow CPU. The implementation supports wireless browsing from 3Com's Palm Pilot. An HTTP proxy fetches web pages on the client's behalf and dynamically generates summary views to be transmitted to the client. These summaries represent both the link structure and contents of a set of web pages, using information about link importance. We discuss the architecture, user interface facilities, and the results of comparative performance evaluations. We measured a 45% gain in browsing speed, and a 42% reduction in required pen movements.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Tim Oates
2. Zhiguang Wang
3. Gediminas Adomavicius
4. Alexander Tuzhilin
5. Eija Kaasinen

In Information Systems

1. Michael J. Pazzani
2. S. Lo Piano
3. Gediminas Adomavicius
4. Alexander Tuzhilin
5. Cynthia Rudin
6. Charu C. Aggarwal
7. George Karypis
8. Yongfeng Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• A diary study of mobile information needs (2008, background): “Many have proposed ways of transforming desktop browsing to the constrained display of mobile devices [1,3,5,8].”
• Improving mobile internet usability (2001, methodology): “The PowerBrowser for the PalmPilot [3, 4] is a similar tool to WebTwig and has also performed well in user trials.”