Enhancing mobile browsing and reading
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Miller_Enhancing mobile.pdf
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Author(s)
Yu, Chen-Hsiang
Miller, Robert C.
Date Issued
May 2011
Journal
Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '11)
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Chen-Hsiang Yu and Robert C. Miller. 2011. Enhancing mobile browsing and reading. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1783-1788.
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Abstract
Although the web browser has become a standard interface for information access on the Web, the mobile web browser on the smartphone does not hold the same interest to mobile users. A survey with 11 mobile users shows that only 18% of the participants like mobile web browsers, whereas 82% of them like other mobile applications. This research focuses on understanding mobile users' difficulties and proposes innovative ideas to enhance mobile web browsing. This research enhances mobile browsing and reading in three directions: (1) dynamically generating mobile web sites for browsing (2) using orientation sensor information to detect natural interactions and text-to-speech (TTS) to continue reading between different activities, and (3) providing a speech interface to ease web navigation and supporting dialog programming for repetitive tasks. The Read4Me Browser is a prototype system built to demonstrate the proposed ideas.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979845
