Towards location-aware mobile web browsers

Location Based Services (LBS) promise interesting business opportunities. Today, most LBS are either implemented in hardware devices, or downloaded and installed by mobile phone users as software applications. Both approaches lead to scattered markets and hinder standardization. This paper suggests an alternative approach, which is to enhance mobile web-browsers with location information and implement LBS at the server-side. We define the design space for the location enhanced mobile web and present an implementation of a location enhanced web browser for the currently predominant mobile phone operating system, i.e. Symbian S60. Keywords Browser, Location, Location Based Services, Mobile Web

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MUM
• Authors: Stephan Karpischek, Fabio Magagna, Florian Michahelles, Juliana Sutanto, Elgar Fleisch
• Keywords: Location Based Services, Mobile Phone, Mobile Phone Users, Multimedia, MUM 2009