WEST: a Web browser for small terminals
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Two approaches to bringing Internet services to WAP devices
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
A Multimodal System for Accessing Driving Directions
DAS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems V
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Csurf: a context-driven non-visual web-browser
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
HSTP: hyperspeech transfer protocol
Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
OPA browser: a web browser for cellular phone users
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
WWTW: the world wide telecom web
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Organizing the unorganized - employing IT to empower the under-privileged
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
The world wide telecom web browser
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Designing e-learning games for rural children in India: a format for balancing learning with fun
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Search Vox: leveraging multimodal refinement and partial knowledge for mobile voice search
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Advancement through interactive radio
Information Systems Frontiers
Avaaj Otalo: a field study of an interactive voice forum for small farmers in rural India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
RadioMarché: distributed voice- and web-interfaced market information systems under rural conditions
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Exploring the interplay between community media and mobile web in developing regions
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
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In developing regions, literacy levels and Internet penetration is considerably low, but phone penetration is high and is growing rapidly. In such a setting, the World Wide Telecom Web (WWTW), commonly known as the Spoken Web, provides a compelling alternative to the World Wide Web, since it relies on audio interaction over the phone. WWTW consists of interconnected voice applications (called Voice-Sites) that can be accessed from any phone by making a simple phone call. In this paper, we present a browser for this WWTW, that enables these users to browse VoiceSites in a seamless fashion using spoken commands such as back, forward, new, history and bookmarks. The browser can be accessed by making a phone call to a specific number. To support access from any dumb phone instrument, it does not execute on the phone but on the server side. We discuss the scalability of this design and overcome the limitations of sequential speech interaction by disambiguating the browser commands with the VoiceSite's local commands. Simplicity of the user interface is vital for the usefulness of the browser for the low-literate population. This paper presents the concept, design, and usability of the Telecom Web browser.