Towards location-aware mobile web browsers

Authors:
Stephan Karpischek;Fabio Magagna;Florian Michahelles;Juliana Sutanto;Elgar Fleisch
Affiliations:
ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Location Based Services (LBS) promise interesting business opportunities. Today, most LBS are either implemented in hardware devices, or downloaded and installed by mobile phone users as software applications. Both approaches lead to scattered markets and hinder standardization. This paper suggests an alternative approach, which is to enhance mobile web-browsers with location information and implement LBS at the server-side. We define the design space for the location enhanced mobile web and present an implementation of a location enhanced web browser for the currently predominant mobile phone operating system, i.e. Symbian S60.