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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Web prefetching between low-bandwidth clients and proxies: potential and performance
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Power browser: efficient Web browsing for PDAs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interactive Internet search: keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms compared
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets
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Efficient Browsing of Web Search Results on Mobile Devices Based on Block Importance Model
PERCOM '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
AppLens and launchTile: two designs for one-handed thumb use on small devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Summary thumbnails: readable overviews for small screen web browsers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A large scale study of wireless search behavior: Google mobile search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Analysis of WWW traffic in Cambodia and Ghana
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
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Energy-efficient data caching and prefetching for mobile devices based on utility
Mobile Networks and Applications
Alleviating the latency and bandwidth problems in WWW browsing
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
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Study of a bus-based disruption-tolerant network: mobility modeling and impact on routing
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Very low-cost internet access using KioskNet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A diary study of mobile information needs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CoSearch: a system for co-located collaborative web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Deciphering mobile search patterns: a study of Yahoo! mobile search queries
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Website optimization
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
Kelsa+: digital literacy for low-income office workers
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Towards understanding developing world traffic
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
Wide-area network acceleration for the developing world
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WiLdnet: design and implementation of high performancewifi based long distance networks
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Economic analysis of networking technologies for rural developing regions
WINE'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Internet and Network Economics
Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Low-infrastructure methods to improve internet access for mobile users in emerging regions
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Towards improved web acceleration: leveraging the personal web
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Bassa: a time shifted web caching system for developing regions
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Network traffic locality in a rural African village
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
You're capped: understanding the effects of bandwidth caps on broadband use in the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Peeking behind the NAT: an empirical study of home networks
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Measuring broadband performance in South Africa
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
Interactive web caching for slow or intermittent networks
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
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Internet connections in developing regions are scarce and often unreliable. While options for connecting to the Internet are gradually being realized, progress is slow. We observed people performing web search and browsing in a low bandwidth environment in Kerala, India. We found that people in this environment experienced frustration and boredom while waiting for page loads compared to typical experiences in the developed world. Following these observations, we conducted a formal study with 20 participants at the same location comparing the conventional web search and browsing process with an asynchronous queueing model. Participants using the asynchronous queueing system performed as well as the status quo in terms of the number of tasks completed, and we observed greater interaction and information viewed for the asynchronous system. Our participants also preferred the asynchronous system over conventional search. Finally, we found evidence that the asynchronous system would have greater benefits in environments where the network is even more constrained.