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Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
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Alleviating the latency and bandwidth problems in WWW browsing
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Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
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Website optimization
WiLdnet: design and implementation of high performancewifi based long distance networks
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Economic analysis of networking technologies for rural developing regions
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RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Deliberate interactions: characterizing technology use in Nairobi, Kenya
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
COCO: a web-based data tracking architecture for challenged network environments
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Design and implementation of contextual information portals
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TroTro: web browsing and user interfaces in rural Ghana
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
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Web search and browsing have been streamlined for a comfortable experience when the network connection is fast. Existing tools, however, are not optimized for scenarios where connectivity is poor, as is the case for many users in developing regions where fast connections are expensive, rare, or unavailable. This study examined how users' web search and browsing behavior differs when the connection is slow, and whether users employ techniques to alleviate the problem. In a preliminary study involving 15 subjects on a university campus in Kerala, India, we identify unique mitigating behaviors of users who routinely suffer low-bandwidth or intermittent connections. We examine the challenges faced by these users and find that existing web search and browsing infrastructure is simply incapable of providing a good experience. Finally we outline potential design improvements.