Enabling efficient browsing and manipulation of web tables on smartphone

Authors:
Wenchang Xu;Yuanchun Shi
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
Venue:
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: towards mobile and intelligent interaction environments - Volume Part III
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Tables are very important carriers of the vast information on the Internet and are widely used in web pages. However, most designs of web tables are only for desktop PCs and just focus on how to visually and logically show large amount of data without considering their visual effects on smallscreen devices. Therefore, users suffer inconvenience when browsing web tables on smartphone. In this paper, we propose to enable efficient browsing and manipulation of web tables on smartphone in order to solve the problems of both information retrieval and content replication from web tables. We implemented a mobile web browser on Android 2.1 platform, which deals with web tables in three steps: genuine table detection, table understanding and user interface design. We conducted a user study to test the effects that users used such tool. Experimental results show that the tool increases users' browsing efficiency of web tables and the novel browsing and manipulation modes are well accepted by users.