Digestor: device-independent access to the World Wide Web
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
Summary thumbnails: readable overviews for small screen web browsers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile web browsing: usability study
Mobility '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology
Comparative evaluation of interfaces for presenting location-based information on mobile devices
ICADL'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Asia-pacific digital libraries: for cultural heritage, knowledge dissemination, and future creation
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Mobile Internet is nearly a standard nowadays. Due to former bandwidth, input and screen limitations, website providers often created special versions of their websites for mobile devices. New hardware and interactions techniques like multitouch gestures enable a new way of browsing the original versions of websites. However, companies still spent effort and money in creating secondary versions of their original pages. With the rapid deployment of new mobile devices, the usefulness of mobile versions of websites becomes questionable. To investigate on users expectations, we conducted an online survey with 108 participants about their browsing habits and preferences on mobile devices. In a follow-up user study with 24 participants. The results of the survey show that more and more people prefer using original content instead of the mobile version, especially for users of new generation mobile devices like the iPhone or Android phones. Those results are supported by the user study, which shows no significant performance increase when comparing both versions -- the mobile and desktop one -- performing a visual search task.