Personalizing Web Sites for Mobile Devices Using a Graphical User Interface

Despite recent advances in wireless and portable hardware technologies, mobile access to the Web is often laborious. For this reason, several solutions have been proposed to customize Web pages to mobile access. Wrappers are one of the most promising technologies addressing this issue. In this paper, we describe a wrapper system that targets the personalization of Web pages to mobile devices. A personalization is a subpage of a given web page containing just the information that mobile users would like to access using a PDA. The proposed personalization system meets the following requirements: (i) it supports personalization of standard web pages; (ii) it supports personalizations that are robust to common changes in Web pages; (iii) it supports the creation of personalizations using a graphical user interface. In order to delimitate a personalization, end-users should open the original Web page in a standard browser and click and drag the mouse over the content of the page they are in...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Leonardo Teixeira Passos, Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente
• Keywords: ICWE 2004, Mobile Access, Personalization, Web Page