Power browser: efficient Web browsing for PDAs

  • Authors:
  • Orkut Buyukkokten;Hector Garcia-Molina;Andreas Paepcke;Terry Winograd

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Libraries Lab (InfoLab), Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Digital Libraries Lab (InfoLab), Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Digital Libraries Lab (InfoLab), Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Digital Libraries Lab (InfoLab), Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We have designed and implemented new Web browsing facilities to support effective navigation on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with limited capabilities: low bandwidth, small display, and slow CPU. The implementation supports wireless browsing from 3Com's Palm Pilot. An HTTP proxy fetches web pages on the client's behalf and dynamically generates summary views to be transmitted to the client. These summaries represent both the link structure and contents of a set of web pages, using information about link importance. We discuss the architecture, user interface facilities, and the results of comparative performance evaluations. We measured a 45% gain in browsing speed, and a 42% reduction in required pen movements.