WebThumb: interaction techniques for small-screen browsers

Authors:
Jacob O. Wobbrock;Jodi Forlizzi;Scott E. Hudson;Brad A. Myers
Affiliations:
Human Computer Interaction Institute;Human Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Human Computer Interaction Institute;Human Computer Interaction Institute
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The proliferation of wireless handheld devices is placing the World Wide Web in the palms of users, but this convenience comes at a high interactive cost. The Web that came of age on the desktop is ill-suited for use on the small displays of handhelds. Today, handheld browsing often feels like browsing on a PC with a shrunken desktop. Overreliance on scrolling is a big problem in current handheld browsing. Users confined to viewing a small portion of each page often lack a sense of the overall context --- they may feel lost in a large page and be forced to remember the locations of items as those items scroll out of view. In this paper, we present a synthesis of interaction techniques to address these problems. We implemented these techniques in a prototype, WebThumb, that can browse the live Web.