Small screen access to digital libraries

  • Authors:
  • Gary Marsden;Robert Cherry;Alan Haefele

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town, South Africa;University of Cape Town, South Africa;University of Cape Town, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper looks at the possibilities of taking existing digital library technology and using it for educating those who do not normally have access to the Internet. We have built a system which allows WAP devices to access an HTML based digital libary. Whilst building such a system is technically possible, our work has shown that there are a wide range of usability issues which need to be tackled. We investigate these problems, suggest improvements and outline where future research needs to take place.