Capricorn: an intelligent interface for mobile widgets

  • Authors:
  • Fredrik Boström;Patrik Floréen;Tianyan Liu;Petteri Nurmi;Tiina-Kaisa Oikarinen;Akos Vetek;Péter Boda

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Helsinki;University of Helsinki;University of Helsinki;University of Helsinki;University of Helsinki;Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group;Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Widgets are embeddable objects that provide easy and ubiquitous access to dynamic information sources, for example weather, news or TV program information. Widgets are typically rather static - they provide the information regardless of whether the information is relevant to the user's current information needs. In this paper we introduce Capricorn, which is an intelligent interface for mobile widgets. The interface uses various adaptive web techniques for facilitating navigation. For example, we use collaborative filtering to recommend suitable widgets and we dim infrequently used widgets. The demonstration presents the Capricorn interface focusing on the adaptive parts of the interface. The user interface is web-based, and as such platform independent. However, our target environment is mobile phones, and thus the interface has been optimized for mobile phones.