A location-aware information browser implemented on BREW-based mobile phones

  • Authors:
  • Yoshihide Hosokawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a method to implement a location-aware information browser on mobile phones. Our location-aware information browser is designed to look for nearby hidden points of interests in mobile computing environments. The method we developed provides two benefits: The first benefit is to improve the performance of transforming and rendering a map by combining filtering techniques of a spatial database and fixed-point arithmetic techniques. Our method is designed to deal with two kinds of minimum bounding rectangles to apply such conventional effective processing techniques of a spatial database to our browser. The second benefit is to handle large or long map elements in BREW-based computing environments by clipping techniques of computer graphics. We clarified the feasibility and effectiveness of our method by several experiments.